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AMERICA 
IN  THE  WAR 


AMERICA 
IN  THE  WAR 


BY 


LOUIS  RAEMAEKERS 


EACH  CARTOON  FACED  WITH  A  PAGE 
OF  COMMENT  BY  A  DISTINGUISHED 
AMERICAN,  THE  TEXT  FORMING  AN 
ANTHOLOGY  OF  PATRIOTIC  OPINION 


NEW  YORK 
THE  CENTURY  CO. 

1918 


Copyright,  1918,  by 

The  Century  Co. 

Published,  October,  191/^ 


List  of  Cartoons 


stack 
Annex 


The  Stars  and  Stripes  in  the  Service 
■    OF  Humanity 


"When  I  was  a  Child,  It  was  You  Who 
Saved  Me" 

The  Hun:     "Keep  Neutral"  .... 

Peace  Plots  Revealed  in  Amekica  and 
France      .      .      

Belgium,  1918 

"We  will  not  Wear  Convicts'  Stripes, 
Wear  Them  Yourselves"  .... 

The  Final  Argument 

The  End  of  the  Hindenbukg  Line  . 

"Something  's    Wrong.      She    Does  n't 
Seem  to  Inspire  Confidence" 

Angels  of  the  War  Zone 

As  Thou  Sowest,  so  Shalt  Thou  Reap 

"Don't  Stop,  Old  Chap,  Keep  It  Up!"     . 

"So   We   Are    Only   a    Dollar-.making 
People,  Are  We?" 

"No,  Thanks,  I  Know  These  Princes  of 
Yours  Too  Well" 

Speeding  Up 

Toward  the  Valley  of  Deciskjn  . 

Wake  Up,  America! 

"There  are  Plenty  of  Lamp-posts!" 

"We   Don't   Seem   to   Inspire   Enough 
Confidence" 

German  Submarines  Fire  on  Open  FjO.^ts 

Not  This  Time! 

The  President  to  the  Workers  . 

"Well  Done,  Fellows!     Keep  the  Home 
Fires  Burning!" 

A  Bit  of  the  Hindenburg  Line  . 

The  Rats  in  Our  Home  Trenches  . 

Seeing  Stars . 

The  Two  Giants 

"Will  They  Last,  Father?"  .... 

"The    Ugly    Talons    of   the    Sinister 
Power" 


Hun.  Myron  T.  Hcrrick 
Robert  Underwood  Joluison 


John  Jay  Chapman 
Ralph  Adams  Cram 


Poidtney  Bigeloiv 
Charles  Hanson  Townc 
Meredith  Nicholson  . 


Robert  Grant 
Gertrude  Atherton     . 
Hon.  A.  S.  Burleson 
John  Philip  Sousa 

John  Kendrick  Bangs     . 

Herbert  Adams  Gibbons 


Rev.  Stephen  S.  Wise,  Ph.D.,  LI^.D. 
.Mary  E.  ]\'ilkins  Freeman  . 
Hudson  Ma.rim 

Hon.  Henry  Cabot  Lodge     . 
Alice  Broivn 


Hon.  Lindlev  I\J.  Garrison 
David  Bispham    . 
E.  S.  Martin  .... 
Booth  Tarkington 
Hon.  James  ]V.  Gerard  . 
Gcorqe  W.  Cable 


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John  Burroughs 58 


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LIST  OF  CARTOONS 

PAGE 

Restitution  and  Reparation  ....     Ellis  Parker  Butler 60 

The  Only  Possible  Position  for  Trai- 
tors       H.  C.  Chatfield-Taylor  ....  62 

"Do  You  Mean  to  Make  a  Real  War?" 64 

Justice! ihisil  Lannean  Gilderslecvc       .      .  66 

Another  Peace  Proposal Henry  Divight  Sedgwick     ...  68 

The  Fine  American  Spirit     .     .      .      .      G.  E.  ll'oodbcrry 70 

Poisoning  the  Well  of  Public  Opinion 72 

The  Enemy  Within ll'illiaiii  Roscoe  Thayer       ...  74 

Count     von     Bernstorff:      "Xoblesse 

Oblige" George  Tniinbiitl  Ladd  ....  76 

Peter  the  Hermit Ida  M.  Tarbell 78 

The  Germ-Man 'llbcrt  Bigelow  Paine      ....  80 

"A  TiD-BiT  for  'The  Sick  Man'"    .      .     Hon.  George  IV.  IVtckersIiani  .      .  82 

Plain  Language  from  Truthful  James 84 

Helping  Hindenburg  Home 86 

A  Bad  Prophet 88 

At  the  Holland  Frontier Hon.  IVilliam  Jennings  Bryan  .      .  90 

A  Rehearsal 92 

The  Path  of  Kultur Edn'in  Markham 94 

To  the  Victor  ! Geraldine  Farrar 96 

The  Eyes  of  the  Army Thomas  Mott  Osborne  ....  98 

"Is  It  Nothing  to  You,  All  Ye  Who 

Pass  By?"' Rachel  Crothcrs 100 

The     Rainbow     Division     Leaves     for 

France Hon.  Frederic  Courtland  Fenficld  .  102 

Russia  Reborn Edu'ard  Alszvorth  Ross  ....  104 

Higher  Than  a  Sour  Apple  Tree     .      .     Samuel  Hopkins  Adams      .      .      .  106 

"Wh.at  a  Mean  Trick  to  Turn  on  That 

Strong  Light!" 108 

Christmas,  1917 Henry  Mills  Aldcn no 

Helping  Uncle  Sam  to  Get  Up  Speed 112 

The  Wind  of  Democracy 114 

"This  One  for  the  Babies!"  ....      Rev.  Lyman  .Abbott 116 

A  Scene  ON  the  SoMME 118 

Hollweg  as  Robespierre I-  G.  Phelps  Stokes 120 

President  Wilson's  Declaration       .      .     John  Luther  Long 122 

"Don't  Stand  IN  Our  Way  TO  Victory  !"     George  Haz'en  Putnam  ....  124 

"German  Soldiers  Cut  the  Throat  of 

an  American  Sentry"       ....     Cleveland  Moffett 126 

Bang! 128 

"I  Must  Break  in  Here  Before  That 

Comes  Down" Palmer  Co.r 130 

Bring  Her  In! Charks  Edivard  Russell  .      .      .  132 

Germany's  "Peace"  With  Russia      .     .     Arthur  Train 134 


LIST  OF  CARTOONS 

PAGE 

The  Better  FitiHTER 136 

The  Dungeon  of  Autocracy     ....     Hon.  Maurice  J'rancis  Ecjan     .      .  138 

"Hurrah  fur  I'eace,  Lads!"     ....     S.  Stamvood  Menken     ....  140 

EcceHomo! Robert  IV.  Chamber.^     ....  142 

"We  Must  so  Destroy  France  That  Sue 

Can  Never  Resist  Us" Rev.  Hiiyli  Black 144 

The  Japanese  Mouse 146 

"Ueber  Alles"  and  Underneath 148 

Expostulation  AND  Rei'ly i^o 

The  Second  Election 152 

The  Mad  Shepherd -ilice  Hcgan  Rice 1 54 

"Sink  Without  a  Trace" Oliver  Hcrford i  :;6 

Changing  the  Guard Agnes  Rcpplier i  :;8 

The  Penitent  Artist 160 

Peace  Angels  of  Doubtful  Purity 162 

The  Black  Fl.\g 164 

The  Annexation  of  America  ....     Rear  Admiral  Robert  E.  Peary      .  166 

"Welcome.  Mate;  You 're  Just  in  Time!" ,68 

The  Editor ijo 

German  Intrigues  in  Mexico  ....     Albert  Bnshncll  Hart     .      .      .      .  172 

German  "Militarist"  Socialis.m  .      .      .      Jl'illiant  English  Wallinq     .      .      .  174 

The  Old  Hammer  AND  the  New x^g 

The  Spirit  of  Washington i-g 

The  Massacre  OF  the  Innocents  .      .      .      IVilliani  Dean  Ho-vclls  ....  180 

In  the  Ring  to  Stay Harvey  O'Higgins 182 

"We  Attacked  the  'Fortress  of   Lon- 
don'"  ,84 

Not  a  Bad  Start! Hon.  Thomas  R.  Mar.':haU  .      .      .  186 

An  Echo  of  the  Luxberg  Case ,88 

German  Chivalry  to  Wounded  Officers     Hamilton  Holt iqo 

Socialism  in  Germany John  Spargo iq2 

The  Spirit  of  German  Science     .      .      .     /.  Mark  Bald'vin 194 

Humanity  and  Her  German  Lovers jog 

The  Strikers Carrie  Chapman  Catt     ....  198 

1776-1917 William  Allen  White       ....  200 

"Xovv,  Hindenburg.  Bring  on  the  Rest 

OF  My  People" Hon.  David  .Jaync  Hill  ....  202 

The  Master  of  the  Hounds 204 

Processional Cale  Young  Rice 206 


AMERICA 
IN  THE  WAR 


The  Stars  and  Stripes  in  the 
Service  of  Humanity 

WK  have  no  selfish  ends  to  serve.  We  desire  no  conquest,  no 
dominion.  We  seek  no  indemnities  for  ourselves,  no  material 
compensation  for  the  sacrifices  we  shall  freely  make.  We  are 
but  one  of  the  champions  of  the  rights  of  mankind.  We  shall  be  satis- 
fied when  those  rights  have  been  as  secure  as  the  faith  and  the  freedom 
of  the  nation  can  make  them." 

From  President  Wilson  s  Message  to  Congress,  April  2,  1917. 


W^en  I  was  a  Child,  It  was 
You  who  Saved  Me  " 


WHETHER  it  is  that  an  invigorating  climate  has  given  our 
Anglo-Saxon  blood  a  piquant  Gallic  flavor  or  because  Europe 
sent  us  for  ancestors  only  those  light-hearted  and  adventurous 
souls  with  a  spirit  akin  to  that  we  admire  in  the  French  peo- 
ple, true  it  is  that  Americans  have  always  had  an  especial  liking  for  France 
and  the  French.  They  were  our  first  allies  as  they  are  the  latest.  From 
Lafayette  and  Rochambeau  to  Joffre  and  \'iviani,  a  host  of  Frenchmen 
have  won  the  affectionate  regard  of  Americans  and  are  numbered  with 
our  national  heroes. 

Tint  our  relation  to  the  French  has  a  deeper  foundaticjn  than  admira- 
tion for  a  courageous  and  accomplished  race  which  for  centuries  has  made 
generous  contriljution  to  the  sum  of  the  world's  knowledge  and  achieve- 
ment. Hie  P'rench  were  early  settlers  on  this  continent;  LaSalle  and 
Champlain  were  the  forerunners  of  a  host  of  French  explorers  and  set- 
tlers whose  descendants  are  today  taking  active  and  honorable  part  in  the 
life  of  community  and  nation. 

Before  the  war  one  of  the  foremost  French  statesmen  said  to  me,  with 
a  certain  note  of  sadness,  that  in  the  course  of  two  thousand  years  (»f  ad- 
vancing civilization  his  countrymen  had  lost  something  of  their  initiative; 
that  he  believed  it  would  not  now,  for  instance,  be  possible  to  build  up  in 
France  vast  industrial  organizations  like  those  which  are  so  effectual  in 
establishing  the  commercial  prestige  of  the  United  States. 

If  that  were  true  before  the  war,  it  can  scarcely  be  credited  now.  France 
has  never  failed  to  provide  effective  military  organization  for  the  protec- 
tion of  western  civilization  against  the  repeated  attacks  of  her  enemies 
from  the  east.  She  defeated  the  forces  of  Mohammedanism  and  saved 
Christianitv.  Time  and  again  through  the  Middle  Ages  she  beat  back  the 
invading  Huns  and  kept  them  from  overrunning  Europe.  The  \-ictory  at 
the  Marne  which  definitely  stopped  their  latest  irruption  is  only  the  latest 
and  greatest  of  many  such  victories  by  which  France  has  laid  mankind 
under  lasting  obligation.  And  the  industrial  organization  which  supplies 
the  armies  of  France  with  the  products  of  farm  and  factory,  and  even  pro- 
duces a  surplus  for  her  allies,  including  the  United  States,  is  additional 
proof  that  the  genius  of  the  French  race  is  neither  decadent  nor  limited, 
but  as  broad  as  all  human  activity  and  as  ardent  today  as  when  Joan  of 
Arc  inspired  kings  and  peasants  alike  with  her  mystic  fervor. 

With  their  French  allies  Americans  can  work  in  most  cordial  understand- 
ing and  sympathy.  That  subtle  spirit  of  unselfish  dedication  to  country 
which  has  won  for  the  French  the  admiration  of  the  world  consecrates  the 
alliance  of  the  peoples  who  are  giving  their  sons  in  common  sacrifice  to 
save  liberty  to  the  world.  Out  of  the  heat  and  turmoil  of  war  bonds  are 
being  forged  between  the  Allied  nations  which  time  and  circumstance  can 
never  sever.  On  that  alliance  the  hope  of  civilization  depends;  from  it 
may  come,  in  God's  good  time,  some  great  forward  step  in  the  march  of 
progress  which  began  at  a  manger  in  Bethlehem. 

Cleveland,  Ohio, 
March,  1918.  MYRON  T.  HERRICK. 

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s^pY'Tt'rm  cl'C '■-^  • , 


The  Hun:  "Keep  Neutral 


99 


EVERY  great  event  is  an  occasion  for  the  moral  education  of  the 
world.  Froude,  in  his  essay  "On  the  Science  of  History,"  says 
that  the  value  of  history  is  that  it  sounds  across  the  centuries  the 
eternal  note  of  right  and  wrong.  Along  with  the  unbelievable  calamities 
that  have  come  in  the  train  of  the  war  that  in  August,  1914,  was  shame- 
lessly, dishonorably  and  with  malice  aforethought  precipitated  by  the 
Kaiser  and  his  fellow  highwaymen,  there  stands  out  one  colossal  good: 
it  has  made  the  world  increasingly  ethical.  The  flaunting  by  the  German 
miiitarv  party  of  all  that  we  associate  with  fair  play,  chivalry,  democracy, 
hnnianitv,  even  Christianity  itself,  has  aroused  the  Allied  peoples  to  the 
fact  that  the  foundation  principles  of  happiness  are  at  stake. 

'T  is  for  the  holiness  of  life 
The  Spirit  calls  us  to  the  Cross. 

The  brutality  of  the  Teutons — Austrians  and  Germans  alike — their  will- 
ingness, in  order  to  win,  to  throw  away  everything  w^e  think  admirable  in 
conduct,  created  a  reaction  in  America  by  arousing  us  from  our  laissez- 
faire  attitude  to  the  conviction  that  there  can  be  no  neutrality  between 
right  and  wrong.  The  opportunity  should  not  be  lost  to  enforce  this  les- 
son upon  the  young,  who  should  be  taught  to  hate  the  devilish  spirit  by 
which  the  Teutons  are  obsessed.  In  due  time,  when  their  defeat  is  ac- 
complished, a  reaction  will  set  in  among  themselves.  The  cost  is  appall- 
ing, but  I  believe  that  nations,  like  men,  can 

"rise  on  stepping-stones 
Of  their  dead  selves  to  higher  things." 

Meantime,  with  what  pride  we  realize  that — as  eventually  even  German 
historians  will  admit — our  own  part  in  the  war  is  on  a  higher  plane  of  dis- 
interestedness than  we  have  ever  reached  before,  a  level  of  altruism  that 
has  rarely,  if  ever,  been  attained  by  any  other  nation ! 

ROBERT  UNDERWOOD  JOHNSON. 

February  22,  1918. 


■J — i«(j  19    ("^'j f' mf^f f ss,' '*=  • 


Peace  Plots  Revealed  in  America 

and  France 


M 


R.  RATIIOM,  Editor  of  the  "Providence  Journal,"  whose  ex- 
jxjsure  of  von  Bernstortf's  plots  seemed  to  show  a  gift  of  necro- 
mancy, states  that  his  information  came  to  him  through  men  and 
women  (often  Bohemians  and  Slavs)  "who  not  only  took  grave  risks  in 
the  work — for  they  were  braving  German  vengeance — but  gave  up  their 
time  and  in  many  cases  their  own  funds,  without  a  dollar  of  compensa- 
tion from  the  'jnuniar  or  anyone  else,  in  order  to  give  us  the  facts  which 
would  prove  to  the  American  people  the  manner  in  which  they  were  being 
tricked  and  fooled." 

If  this  cartoon  of  Mr.  Raemaekers  shall  serve  to  make  the  native  Amer- 
ican take  seriously  a  situation  which  is  serious  in  the  extreme,  it  will  not 
have  been  made  in  vain.  Whenever  an  American  hears  or  overhears  any 
one  in  any  station  of  life  uttering  treasonous  language,  he  should  report 
the  matter  and  give  the  name  of  the  culprit  immediately  to  the  Secret 
Service, — not  content  himself  with  repeating  the  words  at  the  club  as  a 
good  story. 

JOHN  JAY  CHAPMAN. 


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Belgium,  1918 


Y(JU,  who  on  the  tree  of  shame  show  forth  again  the  Sacrifice  of 
Calvary:  you  for  whom  scourge  and  thongs  and  the  mockery  of 
dull  beasts  are  the  circumstance  of  martyrdom:  you  who  freely 
offered  yourself  that  man  might  be  saved,  "yet  so  as  by  fire"  : — Belgium! 
in  the  depth  of  your  agony  and  the  long  tcjrment  of  a  red  martyrdom,  re- 
member that  the  Cross  of  your  own  Passion  endures  only  until  the  Res- 
urrection that  comes  after  the  third  day. 

God,  in  mercy  Incarnate,  as  Man  suffered  the  shameful  death  of  the 
Cross  that  the  world  might  be  saved  from  the  penalty  of  its  sins.  The 
Tree  of  Scorn  is  raised  up  on  Calvary,  beconu'ng  the  instrument  of  shame 
and  of  death,  yet  "the  leaves  of  that  Tree  shall  be  for  the  healing  of  the 
Nations." 

Nails  and  spear,  scourge  and  thongs,  crumljle  and  fall  away;  the  ob- 
scene mockers  "that  watched  Flim  there,"  and  watch  you,  O  Belgium, 
go  hence  to  that  place  prepared  for  them  by  Eternal  Justice,  but  with  the 
sun  of  Easter  morning,  behold  a  great  wonder!  The  Cross,  that  was  a 
dead  engine  of  death,  is  transformed  bv  Divine  miracle.  It  lives,  it 
throws  out  branches  and  leaves ;  it  is  now  the  Tree  of  Mercy,  "and  the 
leaves  of  that  Tree  shall  be  for  the  healing  of  the  Nations." 

RALPH  ADAMS  CRAM. 


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"We  will  not  Wear  Convicts' 
Stripes,  Wear  Them  Yourselves" 

[Mr.  Raemaekers  refers  in  this  cartoon  to  the  insulting  proposal  of  the  German  ( iov- 
ernnient,  just  before  the  entrance  of  the  United  States  into  the  war,  that  American  sliips 
at  the  rate  of  one  a  week  would  be  permitted  to  pass  the  submarine  "blockade'  if  they 
were  painted  in  stripes  in  a  specified  manner.] 

WHEN  Attila  laid  Rheims  in  ashes,  cut  the  throats  of  his  hos- 
tages, tortured  his  prisoners,  and  thus  earned  fame  as  the 
Scourge  of  God,  he  found  priests  and  professors  to  justify  his 
acts  and  to  predict  the  speedy  Hunnification  of  the  world.  Attila  is  to- 
day popular  in  Prussia — mothers  have  their  balies  called  Etzel  and  when 
William  II  sends  forth  his  armies  he  bids  them  be  worthy  of  their  illus- 
trious namesake. 

Attila  was  the  first  of  the  great  Junkers.  His  army  was  largely  Ger- 
man and  he  held  court  in  the  centre  of  Thuringia.  He  is  the  hero  of 
Germanic  song  and  legend;  and  his  spirit  animates  the  Hymn  of  Hate, 
the  murder  of  Edith  Cavell,  the  sinking  of  the  Lusitania  and  above  all  the 
hired  criminals  who  have  been  operating  in  America  in  the  disguise  of 
patriotic  citizens. 

POULTNEY  BIGELOVV. 
Maldcii-on-Hudson. 

JJ'ashiiigfoii's  Birthday.  1918. 


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13 


The  Final  Argument 

IN  the  now  happily  distant  days  of  August,  VJ\A,  the  people  of  the 
United  States  found  themselves  facing  an  opaque  wall  of  neutrality. 
But  we  are  an  emotional  people;  and  the  rape  of  Belg-iuni  had  hit  us 
emotionally.  Though  we  were  asked  not  to  applaud  the  pictures  of 
Allied  soldiers  that  flashed  across  the  screen  in  every  motion-picture  thea- 
tre of  the  country,  we  did  clap  our  hands;  and,  what  is  more,  we  vali- 
antly hissed  the  Kaiser  when  he  strutted  before  our  view.  Let  the  Amer- 
ican people  ever  rejoice  that  in  those  first  tragic  days  they  had  eyes  of 
the  heart.  Oh,  those  months  of  shame  for  us  who  felt  that  the  cause 
of  England  and  France  and  Belgium  was  the  cause  of  the  United  States 
of  America!  They  have  passed  now,  thank  God;  and  the  man  of  vision 
who  first  brought  home  to  us  what  Belgium's  sorrow  meant,  was  Louis 
Raemaekers.  Each  line  he  drew  was  a  full  platoon  of  soldiers  advancing 
toward  Berlin.  His  vivid,  ironic  pencil  was  a  gun  thrust  at  Prussian 
autocracy.  Llis  art  opened  the  door  in  that  opaque  wall  I  have  spoken 
of;  and  it  was  a  garden  that  we  looked  upon — though  a  garden  filled  only 
with  red  flowers;  the  poppies  of  everlasting  sleep;  crimson  blooms  that 
spoke  of  the  l)lood  so  nobly  shed  in  the  name  of  national  honor ;  fiery  blos- 
soms that  burst  upon  our  gaze  through  the  smoke  of  German  gUins; 
dark  passion-flowers  that  breathed  pain,  but  never  despair.  The  sad 
garden  of  Belgium — this  it  was  that  one  man  of  genius  revealed  to  us, 
in  all  its  pity  and  sorrow.  And  America  looked,  and  wept,  and  sent  mes- 
sengers into  that  place  of  desolation.  For  never  for  an  instant  had  we 
been  neutral,  never  had  we  really  dreamed  of  standing  by  and  letting 
this  agony  go  on.  Had  we  done  so,  the  years  to  be  would  have  held  only 
grief  for  us.  We  could  not  have  lifted  up  our  heads  in  the  world  of 
nations  if  we  had  not  seized  our  splendid  opportunity. 

Who  has  ever  doubted  the  integrity  of  the  American  people?  As  one 
man  we  rose  when  war  was  at  last  declared,  and  as  one  man  we  will  fight, 
in  the  name  of  Democracy,  in  the  name  of  Humanity,  until  the  Prussian 
yoke  is  lifted  from  the  Belgium  we  love  and  reverence.  A  task  lies 
before  us  of  unbelievable  magnitude.  But  we  shall  not  falter,  we  shall  not 
fail;  for  if  we  fail,  life  itself  must  crumble  in  ashes  on  the  hearthstone 
of  the  world.  With  a  triumphant  Kaiser,  existence  would  be  unbearable. 
The  pacifists  lay  all  the  emphasis  on  mere  living.  They  forget  that  most 
of  us  do  not  wish  to  live  on  a  Prussian-ruled  earth.  Surely  it  is  not  much 
to  die  for  a  principle  that  is  higher  than  the  stars. 

Louis  Raemaekers,  you  ha\e  opened  a  door  on  life.  Vou  ha\'e  brought 
news  to  thousands  who  had  not  heard  and  seen.  And  great  is  your  re- 
ward. 

CHARLES  HANSON  TOWNE. 


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15 


The  End  of  the  Hindenburg 

Line 

THE  Hindenburg  line  is  a  menace  to  every  courthouse  in  America. 
In  my  recent  journeys  through  the  West  I  have  never  seen  a 
courthouse  tower  printed  against  the  sky  without  relating  it  to  the 
great  world  conflict.  We  are  lighting  for  all  that  is  embodied  and  ex- 
pressed and  safeguarded  in  these  citadels  of  democracy.  A  little  while 
ago  I  looked  with  reverence  at  a  log  hut  preserved  at  Decatur,  Illinois, 
the  first  courthouse  of  the  county.  Tn  that  little  room  Abraham  Lincoln 
appeared  as  attorney  for  pioneer  citizens  who  understood  perfectly  the 
promise  of  American  democracy.  The  laws  invoked  to  preserve  their 
rights  were  a  crvstallization  of  the  thought  and  the  hope  of  liberty-loving 
peoples,  and  no  settler  in  wilderness  or  prairie,  no  matter  how  humble, 
but  felt  himself  a  partner  in  the  benefits  of  American  institutions  and  the 
great  tradition  of  English  law.  Every  American  courthouse  is  founded 
upon  Magna  Charta.  If  we  are  indebted  for  anything  in  our  democracy 
to  the  Teutonic-Turkish  combination  I  am  unaware  of  it.  Dull  of  wit  in- 
deed, the  Hohenzollern  BEAST,  to  think  his  mailed  fist  could  ever  splin- 
ter the  door  of  one  of  these  American  courthouses!  The  price  our  fore- 
fathers paid  for  their  liberty  was  too  great  for  any  yielding  to  a  devil 
gone  mad  and  attempting  to  bestride  the  world.  During  the  Civil  War 
Lincoln  once  remarked  to  Seward,  speaking  of  Weems'  "Life  of  Wash- 
ington" which  he  had  read  l)efore  the  fireplace  in  his  father's  cabin  in 
Spencer  County,  Indiana,  "It  occurred  to  me  that  it  must  have  been 
something  pretty  fine  those  men  were  fighting  for."  It  was;  and  it  is  for 
that  same  fine  thing  that  America  has  again  drawn  the  sword. 

MEREDITH  NICHOLSON. 


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:^''"^'  fkr^'j 


17 


"Something's  Wrong.    She 

Does  n  H  Seem  to  Inspire 

Confidence  " 

IT  is  Germany's  "Kultur,"  her  spiritual  code,  that  is  responsible  for 
America's  entrance  into  the  war;  her  gruesome  sacrifice  to  Aloloch 
of  all  which  distinguishes  humanity  from  the  brute  and  the  savage. 
It  is  her  philosophy  which  has  made  us  her  horrified  but  resolute  foe. 

The  fruits  of  her  spirit  stand  forth  alike  in  her  speech  and  acts.  "Kul- 
tur is  a  spiritual  organization  of  the  world,  which  does  not  exclude  bloody 
savagery.  It  raises  the  daemoniac  to  sublimity.  It  is  above  morality,  rea- 
son, science,"  so  wrote  a  Teutonic  expounder  ia  the  first  year  of  the  war. 
"We  have  become  a  nation  of  wrath ;  we  think  only  of  the  war.  We  exe- 
cute God  Almighty's  will,  and  the  edicts  of  His  justice  we  will  fulfil,  im- 
bued with  holy  rage,  in  vengeance  upon  the  ungodly.  God  calls  us  to 
murderous  battles,  even  if  worlds  should  thereby  fall  to  ruins,"  so  wrote 
one  of  Germany's  poets.  "Whoever  cannot  prevail  upon  himself  to  ap- 
prove from  the  bottom  of  his  heart  the  sinking  of  the  Liisifania,  who- 
ever cannot  concjuer  his  sense  of  the  gigantic  cruelty  to  unnumbered  per- 
fectly innocent  victims— and  give  himself  up  to  honest  delight  at  this  vic- 
torious exploit  of  German  defensive  power — him  we  judge  to  be  no  true 
German,"  so  wrote  one  of  her  pastors.  And  for  hideous,  ruthless  deeds 
which  violate  every  sanctity  and  deify  falsehood  we  need  but  cite  her 
slaughter  of  children  and  the  aged,  her  poisoning  of  wells,  her  shooting 
of  nurses,  her  sinking  of  hospital  ships,  her  brutal  deportations  and  all 
the  revolting  sinuosities  of  her  spy  system. 

It  is  this  catalogue  of  crimes  committed  in  the  name  of  moral  superi- 
ority that  has  incensed  the  American  people.  It  is  to  combat  "Kultur" 
which  Germany  extols  as  the  quintessence  of  civilization,  this  gospel 
which  constitutes  military  might  the  only  inviolable  law,  that  we  have 
pledged  our  precious  sons,  our  abundant  resources,  our  supreme,  indefa- 
tigable energies.  If  Prussian  arrogance  be  not  rebuked.  Christian  civ- 
ilization fails.  Hence  the  growing  and  embattled  sentiment  that  a  world 
in  ruins  yet  free  for  man  would  be  preferable  to  the  sway  of  Satanic 

Teuton  efficiency. 

ROBERT  GRANT. 

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19 


Angels  of  the  War  Zone 

I  HAVE  sometimes  wondered  if  it  is  really  possible  to  hate  a  country 
for  which  one  has  such  unbounded  contemi)t  and  disgust  as  one  lias 
for  Germany.  It  is  quite  possible  to  fear  withmu  hate;  one  would 
not  hale  a  rattlesnake  or  a  shark,  everi  at  close  (juarters.  On  the 
other  hand  it  is  conceivable  that  you  might  hate  a  fearsome  but  still  ntjble 
beast  like  the  lion,  if  you  were  camping  on  the  desert  and  he  sat  persist- 
ently in  front  of  your  tent,  alternately  licking  his  chops  and  shaking  your 
soul  with  his  loud  anticipatory  roars. 

Usually  we  do  fear  what  we  hate.  But  the  Germans  ha\'e  overshot  the 
mark.  They  have  been  so  dully  and  unchangeably  brutal,  that  many  of 
tis  have  come  to  feel  for  them  the  same  mental  condition  of  loathing  we 
should  feel  for  an  obscene,  flat-headed  giant  running  amok,  while  doing 
our  best  to  hit  him  in  a  vulnerable  spot.  Even  if  they  reached  these 
shores  and  went  automatically  about  disciplining  the  natives  I  feel  sure 
we  should  continue  to  despise  them  and  to  lind  them  ridiculous. 

It  is  possible  that  if  they  had  won  the  war  in  three  months  we' should 
feel  differently.  Then  we  might  have  hated  them  for  devastating  France, 
but  she  it  would  have  been  who  received  our  contempt.  Her  course  in 
history  would  ha\'e  been  run ;  she  would  ha\'e  been  as  degenerate  as  the 
Germans  so  fondly  hoped.  We  might  ha\'e  hated  Germany  for  subju- 
gating so  vast  and  potential  a  country  as  Russia,  but  we  should  have 
respected  her  might,  the  magnihcance  of  her  great  army.  \\'e  should  have 
hated  her  roundly,  and  the  hate  would  have  done  us  all  good,  for  it  would 
ha\-e  been  a  great  emotion  i)ro\'oked  by  a  great  cause. 

But  Germany  as  a  fighting  machine  is  a  failure.  She  has  Ijeen  defeated 
where  she  has  been  compelled  to  depend  upon  force  of  arms  alone.  Her 
only  striking  successes  have  been  won  by  hitting  below  the  belt,  cowardly 
underhand  methods,  sneaking  propaganda,  millions  expended  upon  buy- 
ing human  tools,  and  furnishing  them  with  other  millions  necessary  to 
work  wholesale  destruction,  and  sacrifice  the  helpless  proletariat. 

In  the  Death  House  at  Sing  Sing  the  robust  murderers  have  no  sympa- 
thy for  the  poisoner,  refuse  to  admit  him  to  that  last  tragic  companion- 
ship. So  it  is  with  Germany.  She  is  the  poisoner,  the  jNIedici,  among  na- 
tions. From  strangling  her  enemy  with  gas  to  bombing  tmfortified  towns, 
torpedoing  passenger  ships  and  faring  on  the  life  boats,  or  sinking  hos- 
pital shi])s,  often  carrying  her  own  wounded  to  ease  and  plenty,  she  has 
merely  shown  herself  the  super-snake,  supercharged  with  venom,  not  the 
lion,  who  proudly  stands  in  the  open  spaces  and  challenges  his  enemy  to 
battle.  The  bewildered  expression  on  the  faces  of  these  German  clods  in 
the  act  of  being  rescued  b}-  British  women  nurses,  while  a  home  torpedo 
burrows  in  the  vitals  of  the  ship,  is  a  fair  portent  of  the  minds  of  the 
German  people  after  the  war  when  they  learn  that  they  have  been  fooled, 
and  martyred,  and  crushed,  not  by  the  enemy  but  b}'  their  own  unregen- 
erate  rulers  in  Berlin.  If  they  annihilate  that  caste  and  set  up  a  Re- 
public they  may  win  back  the  respect  of  the  world.  Otherwise  not.  We. 
sometimes  forgive  those  we  hate,  but  only  a  miracle  forces  a  man  to  re- 
spect where  he  has  both  instinctively  and  thinkinglv  despised. 

GERTRUDE  ATHERTON. 
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21 


As  Thou  Sowest,  so  Shalt  Thou 

Reap 

CREEPING  behind  a  mask — stooping,  cringing  and  cowardly — the 
planter  of  sedition  sows  his  seed  in  the  dark.  The  masks  behind 
which  he  hides  are  numerous  and  of  great  variety.  No  sooner 
is  his  identity  disclosed  than  he  assumes  another  disguise.  Behind  "Free- 
dom of  Speech,"  "Liberty  of  the  Press,"  "Conscientious  Objector,"  and 
"Pacifism"  he  hides.  He  makes  his  masks  similitudes  of  virtue.  Whis- 
pered rumors,  distortion  of  truth,  appeals  to  fear,  and  appeals  to  prejudice 
are  mixed  with  even  the  grosser  seeds  he  sows.  When  other  disguises 
are  torn  away  he  may  fashion  a  mask  of  spurious  patriotism.  Most  dan- 
gerous of  all  traitors  is  he  who  keeps  just  within  the  law  of  trespass  while 
scattering  afar  his  seed  of  sedition  throughout  the  Land  of  Liberty. 

A.  S.  BURLESON, 
Postmaster-General  of  the  United  States. 


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"Don't  Stop,  Old  Chap, 
Keep  It  Up!" 

CTIEER  up,  Willie,  the  worst  is  yet  to  come.  Don't  view  me  with 
alarm  and  suspicion.  Don't  avert  your  eyes  from  my  smile.  It 
may  be  sardonic,  but  I  cannot  control  my  facial  expression.  I 
nuist  lof)k  as  I  lliink.  J  am  not  like  you,  W'ilhelm,  looking  God 
and  thinking-  devil.  (Jh,  l)ut  you  are  a  cute  one,  friend  of  mine!  J  love 
you  for  a  tliousand  things  you  have  done,  but  don't  fool  yourself,  friend 
of  my  heart, — 1  beg  pardon,  I  forgot,  I  have  no  heart.  In  that  and  some 
other  aspects,  Willie,  we  are  as  alike  as  two  peas  in  a  pod.  Willie,  we  are 
so  close  in  our  method  of  working  that  I  am  going  to  give  you  permission 
to  call  me  'Du   hereafter. 

"How  in  the  world  could  or  can  you,  for  all  these  years,  make  the  Ger- 
man people  believe  that  the  lirm  name  of  their  Empire  is  'Me  and  God.' 
Vou  and  I  know  that  God  withdrew  His  Name,  His  Goodness,  His 
Honor  and  His  Cajiital  from  the  firm  when  you  signed  up  as  Emperor. 
God  is  a  one-price  God.  God  never  adulterates  His  goods;  God  never 
advertises  one  quality  and  sells  another.  Since  you  have  been  Kaiser. 
Wilhelm,  a  multitude  of  firm  names  could  be  exhibited  on  the  sign  board; 
none  of  them,  I  imagine  would  rate  high  with  Bradstreet,  but  they  would 
be  truthful.  'Me  and  Ambition,'  'Me  and  Power,'  'Me  and  Ruin'  are  a 
few  I  would  suggest.  Of  course,  your  people  would  ha\'e  shunned  you 
just  as  a  mother  shuns  a  house  with  a  Board  of  Health  sign  on  it,  had  you 
given  the  real  name  of  the  firm.  You  are  the  most  worried  looking  po- 
tentate I  have  ever  met,  A\'ilhelm.  Yes,  Wilhelm,  there  will  be  Hell 
to  pay  when  your  people  awake  to  the  fact  that  you  have  no  partner- 
ship with  God,  but  are  simply  a  vassal  of  mine.  I'd  be  scared  out  of  my 
wits  if  I  were  in  your  place.  While  you  are  thinking  of  the  horrible  mess 
you  have  made  of  your  manifold  opportunities  be  good  enough  to  note  a 
deadly  parallel.  Once  I  was  a  prince,  a  prince  in  a  vast  and  beautiful 
Empire  where  all  was  tranquillity,  peace,  holiness  and  bliss.  I  was  called 
Lucifer,  Son  of  the  Morning — I  had  an  all-absorbing  ambition  to  rule 
or  ruin.  I  revolted  and  seduced  some  restless  spirits  to  ally  themselves 
with  me,  fellows  like  your  von  Tirpitz.  I  rebelled  against  the  King  and 
Kingdom  of  Heaven.  The  King  of  Heaven  still  reigns  and  the  Kingdom 
of  Heaven  still  retains  all  its  tranfiuillity  and  beauty.  After  the  row 
was  over  I  found  mvself  in  Chaos.  From  there  I  was  rushed  to  Pan- 
demonium, and  it  is  needless  to  tell  you  that  I  am  now  in  Hell — and  it 
lives  up  to  its  name.  Note  the  deadly  parallel.  Wilhelm,  and  while  you 
are  getting  it  into  your  noddle,  I  will  whistle  the  music  of  our  national 
Hymn  of  Hate  so  you  can  memorize  it.  Try  it  on  your  piano.  The  words 
are — 

"  'Strafe  Hope.   Strafe  Manhood.    Strafe  A\'omanhood.   Strafe  Every- 
thing 

But 
ME.'  " 

JOHN  PHILIP  SOUS  A. 

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25 


"So  We  Are  Only  a  Dollar - 
making  People,  are  Wef 

IT  has  fur  many  years  been  a  favorite  gibe  of  thousands  of  foreign- 
ers, Hving  for  the  most  part  upon  inherited  weaUh,  and  taking  the 
customary  snobbish  attitude  of  the  consumer  toward  the  producer, 
that  Americans  are  "only  a  dollar-making  people,"  as  Mr.  Raemaekers 
has  it  in  his  forceful  cartoon.  Barring  the  word  "only"  perhaps  the  in- 
dictment is  true — I  hope  it  is.  One  of  the  fondest  of  my  many  fond 
wishes  for  my  fellow-Americans  is  that  they  may  all  become  successful 
dollar-makers,  since  he  who  makes  his  own  dollars  is  able  always  to  main- 
tain his  independence,  to  look  his  creditors  large  and  small  squarely  in 
the  eye,  and  live  by  grace  of  his  own  powers,  and  not  by  favor  of  poten- 
tate or  patron. 

There  is  nothing  disgraceful  about  a  dollar,  and  it  may  be  said  on  its 
behalf  that  it  differs  from  the  Sovereign  Incarnate  of  the  Germans  in 
that  it  is  redeemable  always  at  par,  being  worth  the  full  one-hundred 
cents  that  it  calls  for;  in  that  it  rings  true;  in  that  whether  it  be  of  gold, 
of  silver,  or  of  paper,  that  which  it  promises  it  fulfills,  and  has  never  yet 
been  known  to  dishonor  itself.  It  may  occasionally  be  seen  in  bad  com- 
pany, but  it  never  falls  below  the  level  of  its  evil  associations,  and  is  gen- 
uine to  the  core.  Loose  thinkers  sometimes  speak  of  the  "tainted  dol- 
lar," but  there  is  no  such  thing.  If  any  taint  lingers  near  it  is  not  in  the 
dollar  itself,  but  in  the  holder.  So  excellent,  indeed,  and  so  immune  to 
the  effects  of  evil  association  is  the  character  of  the  dollar,  intrinsically, 
that  anv  one  of  Uncle  Sam's  many  billions  could  pass  from  the  pocket  of 
a  Burglar  into  that  of  a  Bishop,  and  be  worthy  of  its  latter  estate. 

I  have  yet  to  meet  an  American  who  confounds  this  true  and  honest 
servant  of  his  well-being  with  his  God,  but,  alas.  I  have  met  countless 
Germans  who  call  it  our  American  King,  and  themselves  bow  ignobly 
down  to  a  Lord  and  Master  whose  assumption  of  a  divine  relationship 
has  made  of  his  life  a  prolonged  blasphemy;  a  King  whose  deeds  of  sav- 
agery are  a  complete  negation  of  his  hypocritical  pretensions  to  the  pos- 
session of  lofty  ideals ;  whose  ring  is  the  ring  of  a  brazen  counterfeit, 
and  whose  word  has  been  so  dishonored  by  himself  that  it  has  become  the 
synonym  for  worthlessness  throughout  the  world. 

If  Kings  or  Masters  of  any  sort  must  be  endured  \\\\o  would  not  rather 
abase  himself  before  the  American  Dollar,  true  and  honest  to  the  core, 
than  deliase  himself  by  bending  the  knee  to  a  Kaiser  who  by  his  in- 
famies has  made  an  Attila  appear  to  be  an  Angel  of  Peace,  a  Bill  Sykes 
a  Gentleman,  and  the  word  of  an  Ananias  a  Bond  of  Faith? 

JOHN  KENDRICK  BANGS. 
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'No,  Thanks,  I  Know  These 
Princes  of  Yours  Too  Well. " 


ON  Ntn'cniber  5,  1916,  Poland  was  "restored"  by  Germany  and  Aus- 
tria-Hungary to  her  old  place  as  an  independent  member  of  the 
family  of  nations.  High  hopes  were  aroused  in  the  hearts  of 
the  Poles.  They  had  suffered  for  over  a  hundred  years,  and  in 
this  war  of  liberation,  which  was  to  form  the  Society  of  Nations,  the  Aus- 
tro-German  ])roclamation  was  the  first  recognition  of  their  aspirations. 
The  Entente  Powers  had  committed  the  serious  blunder  of  refusing  to 
encourage  the  Poles  for  fear  of  offending  Czarist  Russia.  But  very 
soon  the  Poles  realized  that  the  Central  Empires  were  playing  them  false. 
The  "independence"  was  for  to-morrow  and  not  for  to-day,  and  even  for 
to-morrow  it  was  contingent  upon  "being  good." 

At  the  beginning  of  1917,  which  was  the  year  of  national  rebirth, 
hatred  of  Russia  and  resentment  against  the  policy  of  expediency  of 
France  and  Great  Britain,  as  well  as  the  necessity  to  accept  the  de  facto 
Austro-German  occupation,  influenced  most  of  the  Poles  to  trust — in  defi- 
ance of  history  and  experience, — the  good  faith  of  Germany  and  Austria- 
Hungary.  At  the  beginning  of  1918,  they  had  learned  the  lesson  Rae- 
maekers'  pencil  eloquently  depicts — not  to  put  their  trust  in  German 
princes.  At  Brest-Litovsk,  "independent"  Poland  was  refused  a  place  in 
the  peace  negotiations.  Answering  President  Wilson  and  Premier  Lloyd 
George,  Chancellor  von  Hertling  impudently  asserted  that  the  future 
status  of  Poland  concerned  only  her  conquerors. 

The  cartoon,  drawn  to  illustrate  the  scepticism  of  the  Poles,  should 
drive  home  a  truth  to  the  Americans,  ^^'e  must  realize  that  camouflage 
is  not  confined  to  military  operations.  Its  use  to  deceive  armies  is  not  so 
dangerous  as  its  use  to  deceive  the  nations  behind  armies.  From  bitter 
experience  the  Poles  are  learning  that  behind  the  i)rince  put  forward  as 
ruler  is  hidden  German  militarism  and  German  imperialism. 

This  form  of  political  camouflage  is  as  dangerous  for  the  United  States 
as  for  Poland.  Peace  proposals  may  come  to  us — they  will  come  to  us — 
in  plausible  and  appealing  form.  They  will  have  the  appearance  of  fair- 
ness and  justice.     What  is  behind  them?     What  inspires  them? 

Our  mission  in  this  war  is  sanctified  by  its  goal.  To  attain  that  goal 
we  have  consented  to  make  sacrifices  unprecedented  in  the  history  of  our 
nation.  From  a  purely  military  standpoint,  no  camouflage  can  possibly  ob- 
scure the  path  to  the  goal,  and  the  method  of  reaching  the  goal.  The 
German  armies,  as  yet  unconc^uered,  stand  in  front  of  us.  defending  the 
loot  of  German  imperialism,  won  liy  German  militarism,  ^^'e  must  dis- 
possess these  armies  of  their  loot,  and  punish  them  for  having  looted.  But 
— alas! — diplomacy  is  at  work  in  1918  to  attempt  to  save  by  wile  what 
cannot  indefinitely  continue  to  be  held  by  force.  Every  means  of  diplo- 
matic camouflage  will  be  used  by  our  enemies.  Our  inspiration,  our  de- 
termination to  pursue  the  struggle  to  the  bitter  end,  will  be  kept  alive  only 
if  we  see,  through  various  forms  of  camouflage,  the  spiked  helmet  hid- 
den behind  them.  To  make  peace  with.  Gtrm^nywcaring  tJic  spiked  licl- 
jncf  would  mean  to  consecrate  the  success  of  her  imperialistic  policy. 

PIERBERT  ADAMS  GIBBONS. 
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speeding  Up 


Uncle  Sam:    ''/  think  I  had  better  speed  up  and 
build  a  ship  or  two  I ' ' 

April  8.     Keel  laid. 
4th  day.     Double  bottom  completed. 

6th     "        Frames  and  bulkheads  erected  and  portion  of  shell  plating  fin- 
ished. 
7th     "        Stern-frame  in  place, 
14th     "        Boilers  put  on  board. 

21st  "  Stern-post  bored  and  stern-tulje  put  in  place. 
22d  "  jMasts  stepped  and  engine  installation  begun. 
24th     "        Funnel  put  in  place. 

26th     "        Machinery  all  in  and  engines  completely  installed. 
Finishing  touches. 
May  5  (27th  day).     Launched. 

The  building  of  tJie  "Tiickahoe,"  April-May,  1918,  at  Camden. 


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31 


Toward  the  Valley  of  Decision 

THEY  shall  go  down  to  the  \  alley  of  Decisimi,  niultitiules  of  young 
Americans  from  East  and  West,  from  North  and  South,  some  slow 
to  have  gone  into  the  war  but  none  ever  to  go  out  until  a  Decision 
shall  have  been  reached. 

Into  the  \'alley  of  Decision, — for  a  Decision  final  and  irrepealable  we 
are  battling.  Not  a  Decision  as  to  the  victor  in  the  war,  but  a  Decision 
that  shall  give  us  victory  over  war,  its  defenders  and  glorifiers!  For 
the  German  Empire  which  wars  made  this  war  shall  unmake. 

We  go  down  to  the  \'alley  of  Death  for  a  Decision  whether  the  world 
shall  be  ruled  by  Germany  or  by  civiHzation,  be  subject  to  Prussianism 
or  master  of  its  own  fate  and  freedom. 

And  America  knows  the  cost,  which  it  refuses  to  count, — knows  its 
sons  must  be  slain  if  liberty  and  justice  are  to  live. 

To  the  God  of  Justice,  America  lifts  its  heart  in  prayer,  beseeching  not 
security  for  its  beloxed  sons  but  vowing  that  the  sun  shall  perish  out  of 
the  heavens  ere  we  and  our  Allies  surrender  our  liberty,  the  freedom  of 
the  least  of  men,  to  the  barbarism  of  force  and  the  forces  of  barbarism. 
Out  of  the  Valley  of  the  Shadow  of  Death  shall  emerge  the  Decision, 
— Never  again.  The  war  against  war  has  brought  freedom  to  nations, 
and  secured  peace  to  them  that  seek  pulilic  right  as  the  law  of  mankind. 

STEPHEN  S.  \\  ISE,   Ph.D.,   LL.D.,  Rabbi  of  the  Free 
Syiiagoc/nc,  Xew  York. 


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Wake  Up,  America! 

This  was  done  to  Canadians  by  the  I  luns 

AMERICA  wakes !     The  White  Christ  has  called  her ; 
She  has  seen  the  devils  abroad  in  His  world ; 
Evil  vaunting-  himself  has  appalled  her; 
To  the  War-wind  of  Heaven  her  flag  is  unfurled! 

America  wakes — with  his  murder  and  lust 
Let  the   Hun  take  the  path  he  has  carved  into  hell. 
No  longer  blaspheming  the  Cross  with  his  trust. 
America  wakes,  the  sick  world  shall  be  well. 

America  wakes — God's  last  peace-lover, 
God's  fighter  to  death,  when  her  peace  is  assailed. 
Shout,  sing,  fling  out  the  flags,  War  is  over; 
When  America  battles,  right  has  prevailed! 

MARY  E.  WILKINS  FREEMAN. 


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/ 


There  are  Plenty  of  Lamp-posts i 

TIlERli  arc  creatures  that  to  be  hated  need  but  tu  be  seen. 
The  sight  of  the  serpent  awakens  all  the  dead,  old  body-mem- 
ories of  ancient  ages,  when  tliat  reptile  was  man's  ever-present, 
mortal  enemy. 

The  domestic  horse,  made  unafraid  by  a  thousand  generations,  when 
he  smells  his  ancient  enemy,  the  bear,  will  rear  and  plunge  to  break  and 
run  for  his  life. 

The  face  features  a  man's  character,  his  eyes  window  his  sciul.  There 
are  faces  that  instantly  beckon  all  our  better  nature  and  bind  us  in  lov- 
ing thrall.  There  are  other  faces  that  repel  us  as  the  snake  repels.  There 
are  human  tongues  voiced  with  the  serpent's  hiss.  There  are  persons 
about  whom  hangs  an  odor  of  the  reptile  that  wakens  all  the  dead  old 
memories  of  primal  hate. 

The  poet  is  born  the  poet.  Genius  is  an  inheritance.  Human  charac- 
ter is  a  summation  of  ancestral  traits.  So  the  traitor-spy  is  an  ataxic  em- 
bodiment of  all  that  is  reptilian  in  a  line  of  ancestry  back  to  the  serpent 

of  Eden. 

Though  after-ac(|uaintance  may  camouflage  him  to  our  eyes,  still  the  first 
sight,  the  first  impressinn  nf  the  traitor-character  has  in  it  the  temper  of 
aversion.  One  who  has  in  him  the  heart  and  taste  for  atrocious  conduct, 
one  who  has  in  him  the  grass-lurking  viper's  soul,  wears  a  warning  in  his 
face  for  the  safety  of  others. 

The  true  caricaturist — and  Raemaekers  is  one — sees  and  accentuates 
what  God  has  placed  in  the  face  of  the  scoundrel,  the  traitor,  the  spy,  for 
our  protection. 

Great  occasions  are  great  opportunities  for  great  genius.  \\'ar  exacts 
the  supreme  from  all  men  and  all  women.  Onl}-  the  superlative  poet  can 
give  the  inevitable  expression  to  master  deeds  on  the  stage  of  war,  and 
onlv  the  supreme  artist  can  picture  them  with  the  due  and  true  inevi- 
table expression,  which  is  more  aptly  and  more  truly  given  in  caricature 
than  in  any  other  form,  because  in  caricature  that  and  only  that  which 
is  supremely  characteristic  is  portrayed.  Of  all  the  artists  of  this  world 
war,  none  has,  better  than  Raemaekers,  given  in  clean  and  lucid  unit 
view,  the  true  character  of  what  he  has  pictured. 

HUDSON  MAXIM. 
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37 


We  Don't  Seem  to  Inspire 
Enough  Confidence" 


THE  one  menioraljle  cuntribution  to  art  produced  by  the  great  war 
is  to  be  found  in  the  cartoons  of  Louis  Raeniaekers.  It  is  not  nec- 
essary here  to  analyze  the  quahties  of  his  fine  and  powerful  draw- 
ings as  art.  They  must  be  apparent  to  everyone  who  looks  at 
them  with  considerate  eyes.  But  Raemaekers'  cartoons  also  have  a  high 
literary  and  historic  (fuality.  I  do  not  mean  by  this  that  they  tell  or  sug- 
gest stories,  which  are  used  generally  as  an  attraction  for  very  common- 
place pictures,  but  that  they  have  that  quality  of  enduring  literature 
which  awakens  the  deepest  feelings  and  points  to  the  loftiest  ideals  which 
are  as  enduring  as  the  history  of  the  race  in  its  striving  to  reach  the 
heights  of  achievement.  Hogarth  was  one  of  the  few  men  in  the  history 
of  art  who  possessed  these  qualities,  but  great  as  Hogarth  was,  Raemaek- 
ers has  always  been  upon  a  higher  level.  Raemaekers  has  the  poetic  im- 
agination and  we  can  feel  in  his  work  the 

"prophetic  soul 
Of  the  wide  world   dreaming  on  tilings  to  come." 

In  his  cartoons  we  find  the  ai)])eal  to  all  that  is  best  in  human  nature,  to 
the  finest  impulses  of  man,  to  his  deei)est  passions  and  his  noblest  emo- 
tions. 

All  Raemaekers'  work  is  marvellously  effective,  but  I  take  one  single 
example,  not  perhaps  the  most  important — his  treatment  of  the  rulers  of 
Germany  and  Austria — in  order  to  show  his  genius.  By  the  power  of 
his  cartoons  Raemaekers  has  fixed  in  the  public  mind  a  truer  and  deeper 
conception  of  the  two  emperors  and  the  German  crown  prince  than  end- 
less pages  of  print  could  possibly  produce.  The  brutality,  the  over-ween- 
ing arrogance,  the  hideous  religious  cant  of  the  Emperor  of  Germany, 
with  the  touch  of  lunacy  upon  him,  will  live  forever  in  Raemaekers'  por- 
traits. The  feeble  senility  of  the  late  Emperor  of  Austria — joined  as  he 
frequently  is  with  the  Sultan  and  the  King  of  Bulgaria,  kindred  spirits 
— a  senility  marked  by  the  drivelling  insensibility  of  extreme  old  age — 
those  unlovelv  attributes  are  all  there.  As  for  the  Crown  Prince,  he  is 
known  through  these  cartoons  to  millions  who  ha\e  never  seen  him  and 
never  will  see  him  and  will  ha\e  only  this  image  of  him  graven  in  their 
minds.  As  depicted  bv  Raemaekers,  he  has  a  figure  and  face  of  low  dis- 
sipation in  which  degeneracy  and  ferocity  contend  for  mastery.  And 
yet  all  these  figures  harmonize  with  the  rest  of  the  cartoons  in  teaching 
the  one  overpowering  lesson  as  to  the  meaning  of  German  victory.  The 
barbarism,  the  belief  in  might  as  against  right,  the  faith  in  brute  force, 
the  absence  of  human  feeling, — these  cry  out  to  us  through  the  pencil  of 
the  great  artist  that  a  world  in  which  Germany  should  l)e  dominant  would 
be  a  world  of  slaves  in  which  no  free  man  could  wish  to  live. 

HENRY  CABOT  LODGE. 
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39 


German  Submarines  Fire  on 
Open  Boats 

LORD  GOD  made  the  earth  and  its  wonders, 
The  sea  and  the  land. 
The  rain  of  delight  and  the  thunders 
Fall  alike  from  His  hand, 
To  gladden   llis  children, — and  warn  them 
Who  will  not  understand. 

And  the  Lord  God  cried  in  His  anger: 

"Who  has  poisoned  My  sea? 

Who  has  made  it  a  desert  (if  danger 

For  My  ships  sailing  free? 

I  am  God !  and  ye  who  have  done  it 

Shall  account  unto  Me. 


"1  ha\e  planted  the  wasteland  of  water  .  j 

1 

For  Mv  folk  to  find  food;  I 

And  ye  sow  it  with  whirlwind  and  slaughter,  ,  ' 

Ye  Devil's  dark  bruod.  -                           \ 

So  now  shall  ye  reap  in  full  measure  j 

The  harvest  of  blood." 

ALICE  BROWN.  i 

Hill  N.  H.  i 

July  18,  1918.  i 

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\ 

1 
\ 

I 


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41 


Not  This  Time! 


Raemaekers  the  Prophet 

FOR  twenty  years  I  have  clearly  foreseen  Germany's  present  attack 
(in  the  world.  Vnv  twenty  years  I  have  been  drawing  and  pub- 
lishing the  same  type  of  cartoons  which  have  attracted  so  much 
notice  since  the  war.  Seven  years  before  the  war  I  was  already  being 
called  'cin  fcind  DcittscJilaud'  by  the  German  press.  I  cannot  possibly  ex- 
press to  you  the  unhappiness  which  I  felt  at  being  absolutely  certain  of 
the  impending  doom,  and  at  the  same  time  being  incapable  of  making 
people  foresee  and  believe  it.  My  friends  used  to  call  me  'the  man  who 
can  see  ghosts  even  in  sunshine.'  Yet  it  was  I,  not  they,  who  really  knew 
the  beasts  as  all  the  world  knows  them  today ;  I  was  born  in  the  little  town 
of  Lemberg  near  Roermond,  at  a  distance  of  only  a  few  miles  from  the 
German  frontier,  and  have  known  the  beasts  all  my  life,  not  only  in  my 
own  countrv,  but  also  in  theirs,  which  I  have  visited  many  times.  I 
might  almost  say  that  I  have  visited  it  every  year  of  my  life.  In  Hol- 
land we  have  a  saying  that  'even  the  best  German  has  stolen  a  horse.'  I 
do  not  believe  that  there  is  any  German  who  is  not  a  pan-German.  AH 
of  them  sutil'er  from  this  national  and  nation-wide  megalomania." 

— From   a   couirrsafioit  zi'ifli  Raoitackcrs  reported  in  Eric 
Fisher  Wood's  "Xofe-Book  of  an  Intelligence  Officer." 


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43 


The  President  to  the  Workers: 


44 


If  you  are  with  me,  I  am  with  you.  " 


IF  we  are  true  friends  of  freedom — our  own  or  anybody  else's — we  will 
see  that  the  power  of  this  country,  the  productivity  of  this  country, 
is  raised  to  its  absolute  maximum  and  that  absolutely  nobody  is  al- 
lowed to  stand  in  the  way  of  it.  When  I  say  that  nobody  is  allowed  to 
stand  in  the  way,  1  don't  mean  that  they  shall  be  prevented  by  the  power 
of  the  Government,  but  l)y  the  pow-er  of  the  American  spirit.  If  we  are 
to  do  this  great  thing  and  show  America  to  be  what  we  believe  her  to  be, 
the  greatest  hope  and  energy  of  the  world — then  we  must  stand  together 
night  and  day  until  the  job  is  finished." 

From  President   H'ilsoii's  speech  before  the  American  Fed- 
eration of  Labor.  Xovember  12,  1917. 


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i**K;MaiJ.'gBmiggBis 


ill       /PJ^^^^  •)'  >'•■''■> 


45 


"  Well  Done,  Fellows!  Keep  the 
Home  Fires  Burning!  " 

THIS  cartoon  brings  home  to  us  the  imperative  necessity  of  putting 
our  own  house  in  order  and  keeping  it  in  order.  If  the  world  is 
to  be  made  safe  for  democracy,  our  own  conspicuous  example  of 
democracy  must  be  made  safe  for  those  who  dwell  under  its  protection. 
If  we  cannot  conquer  and  control  the  enemy  within  our  gates,  we  will  be 
but  impotent  instruments  of  conquest  over  him  abroad.  Both  at  home 
and  abroad  we  must  rid  ourselves  of  all  hampering  and  distracting  illu- 
sions and  stare  the  facts  in  the  face.  The  facts  are  that  we  arc  at  war, 
— the  grim  and  grimy  business  of  killing  or  being  killed. 

The  issues  invohed  in  this  war  have  been  appealed  to  the  sword,  and 
he  who  lives  by  the  sword  must  die  by  the  sword.  The  time  for  doubt, 
debate,  discussion  or  diplomacy  is  past.  The  onl}-  thing  left  to  do  is  to 
fight, — fight  for  all  that  is  in  us, — fight  as  long  as  we  can  and  as  hard 
as  we  can,  and  until  there  is  no  fight  left  in  our  enemies.  Then  and  not 
until  then  is  it  worth  while  to  consider  other  aims, — so-called  war  aims. 
The  only  real  war  aim  now  is  victory.  We  must  not  let  an\'thing  dis- 
tract us  from  that  essential  aim.  LINDLEY  M.  GARRISON. 


46 


Nov.t: 


We 


I  f  ii         I    . , -.f. .,_._!.     1,  _    „  -*r     .    ..i.)' 

r;  cne  j-fifom  .  „keep    The  h'oine-firei       tur-nijnt), 


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A  Bit  of  the  Hindenburg  Line 

THESE  FELLOWS  ARE  HOT  ON 
THE  TRAIL.  LeT  US  FOLLOW 
SUIT. 

Wherever  you  find  a  Hun  you 

FIND  AN  ENEMY.       GeT  HIM  ! 

DAVID  BISPHAM. 


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49 


The  Rats  in  Our  Home  Trenches 

REALLY,  the  great  question  of  the  war  is:  What  kind  of  people 
are  the  Germans? 
Can  they  he  reformed,  or  are  they  incurable? 
All  Germans  are  not  alike.  There  are  those  who  distinguish 
between  North  and  South  Germans,  and  tell  us  that  the  Saxons,  in  par- 
ticular, have  in  them  the  making  of  excellent  people.  Doubtless  all  Prus- 
sians are  not  alike;  doubtless  all  Bavarians  are  not  of  the  type  of  the 
"Black  Bavarians"  whose  exploits  in  the  war  have  had  unfavorable  men- 
tion. But  what  has  come  to  be  the  image  that  "German'"  calls  up  in  the 
mind?  It  is  an  image  of  ruthlessness,  of  fright  fulness,  of  poison  gas  and 
tracelcss  sinkings ;  of  murder,  pillage,  spies  and  lies ;  of  a  black  and  formi- 
dable ambition  for  mastery  on  any  terms  and  at  any  cost;  of  treachery; 
of  a  tireless  industry  that  gets  up  early  to  fetch  away  by  work  or  wile 
whate\er  in  the  world  is  worth  taking  from  any  one  who  has  it!  The 
current  image  of  the  German  is  an  image  of  an  enemy — a  savage  enemy. 
Since  1914  German  descent  has  been  terribly  prejudiced.  As  to  every 
man  of  German  blood  the  observer  asks  himself:  What  manner  of  man 
is  this?  . 

The  Llohenzollerns  did  not  iuAcnt  the  Germans.  They  found,  acquired, 
trained  and  used  them.  For  centuries — a  thousand  years  at  least — the 
Germans  have  had  a  known  and  demonstrated  rating  for  brutality  and 
brutishness.  They  have  been  cruel  in  war  and  destructive  and  greedy  in 
pillage  beyond  most  other  nations  that  were  their  neighbors.  When  one 
hears  it  said  that  the  trouble  with  Germany  is  Germans,  there  comes  to 
mind  abundant  basis  for  that  suggestion. 

Yet  the  Germans  are  far  too  many  and  too  useful  to  exterminate,  and 
even  if  that  were  possible,  no  nation  but  Germany  could  seriously  enter- 
tain the  idea  of  exterminating  a  whole  people. 

So  what  do  we  come  to? 

To  this :  that  Germany's  fate  rests  in  the  hands  of  the  Germans.  Their 
qualities  will  determine  their  destiny.  Along  with  their  abilities  go  enor- 
mous disabilities.  They  must  do  according  to  what  is  in  them.  They 
must  obey  the  demon  that  drives  them  until,  out  of  the  extreme  of  sufifer- 
ing,  they  gain  the  courage  to  expel  it.  They  must  destroy,  and  so  invite 
destruction,  until  their  racial  propensity  has  wrought  its  own  correction. 
They  must  keep  on  accunuilating  enemies,  exasperating  neutrals,  alienat- 
ing allies,  until  I)lind  and  wicked  policies  have  perfected  their  work. 

What  the  German  has  most  to  fear  is  what  is  inside  of  him.  Bv  cur- 
rent estimate  the  worst  that  can  happen  to  Germans  has  happened  already, 
in  that  they  are  Germans.  The  world  is  not  going  to  adjust  itself  to  their 
misfortune  in  this  particular.  Tt  is  they  who  will  have  to  adjust  them- 
selves to  the  world.  They  will  not  be  able  to  make  the  world  an  over- 
grown Germany  in  which  the  other  jieoples  will  have  to  live  under  Ger- 
man direction.  No.  They  will  have  to  live  in  a  world  largely  populated 
and  managed,  as  now,  by  folks  who  are  not  Germans  and  don't  want  to 
be,  and  whose  primary  concern  for  as  long  as  is  necessary  will  be  to  keep 
Germans  in  their  place.  E.  S.  ^lARTIN. 

SO 


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Seeing  Stars 


Canadian:  ''''A?id you' II  soon  see  the  Stars  and  Stripes.^'' 
German:  '"''Saw  some  already^  sir.'^ 

THIS  is  the  voice  that  he  hears  from  Germany: 
"We  Germans  are  God's  chosen  people,  His  special  favorites, 
and  God  is  German  Himself.  God  rules  over  us  in  the  person  of 
our  Kaiser,  whom  He  has  appointed  for  that  purpose.  We  are  better 
than  all  other  peoples  of  the  earth ;  we  are  wiser  and  purer  and  nobler 
and  more  industrious  and  more  learned  and  stronger  and  cleverer  and 
kinder  and  braver  and  more  spiritual  and  more  warlike  than  all  others. 

"We  are  so  much  greater  than  they  that  whatever  we  do  to  advance 
our  own  interests,  at  the  cost  of  theirs,  is  right  and  praiseworthy.  If  we 
kill  a  great  many  of  them,  those  who  survive  will  in  the  end  be  improved, 
because  they  will  work  for  us  and  learn  something  by  observing  us.  Any 
deceit  is  proper  and  morally  correct  if  it  benefits  us;  and  when  we  prac- 
tise a  policy  of  terror  upon  those  who  oppose  us  it  is  really  philanthropy 
and  shows  how  gentle  we  are,  because  the  survivors  learn  through  our 
cruelty  that  it  is  useless  to  oppose  us,  therefore  they  the  sooner  submit 
their  wills  to  ours.  We  can  not  do  wrong,  no  matter  what  we  do,  so 
long  as  all  that  we  do  is  for  our  own  benefit.  By  our  bright  swords 
we  will  take  possession  of  the  earth  which  ought  to  belong  to  us,  be- 
cause we  are  Germans.  We  believe  in  the  heaviest  possible  breeding  of 
babies,  that  they  may  grow  up  and  be  trained  to  carry  liquid  fire  and 
poison  against  anv  opposition  to  us.  All  the  same,  we  are  the  only  real 
peace-lovers  in  this  malign  and  prejudiced  world,  which,  except  for  us 
and  the  Austrians  and  the  Bulgarians  and  the  Turks,  is  composed  ex- 
clusivelv  of  stupid  ruffians  who  were  so  jealous  and  envious  of  us  that 
they  forced  this  war  upon  us,  hoping  to  make  some  money  out  of  us 
by  annihilating  us.  We  love  peace,  and  are  fighting  for  our  mere  exist- 
ence— that  is,  the  right  to  adjust  our  frontiers  so  that  they  will  include 
the  countries  which  we  have  conquered  by  the  sword,  ^^'c  must  never 
AGAIN  be  threatened  by  those  rascals  of  Belgians!" 

BOOTH  TARKINGTON. 


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The  Two  Giants 


>  > 


Germany:     *'/  destroy! 
A  merica :     "  /  create  ! ' ' 


UNCLE  SAM  has  given  the  Germans  three  surprises. 
It  was  beheved  in  Germany: — 
1st — That  America  would  not  break  diplomatic  relations; 
2nd — That  America  would  never  fight ; 
3rd — That  America  could  not  fight. 

Forced  to  it,  in  self-defense,  we  are  now  giving  all  our  energies  to  war, 
led  by  a  President,  whose  vision  meets  the  extent  of  the  calamity  brcjught 
on  the  world  by  the  selfish  ambitions  of  material  Germany. 

American  built  ships  will  end  the  menace  of  the  slinking  U-boat. 
And  after  the  war  the  flags  of  the  American  Merchant  Marine  once 
more  will  float  on  every  sea. 

JAMES  W.  GERARD. 

Neiij  York,  Jitiv  12,  1918. 


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55 


"  Will  They  Last,  Father  f  " 

THE  four  greatest  events  in  history;  the  advent  of  Christ,  the  dis- 
covery of  America,  the  Reformation,  and  the  French  Revolution, 
are  all  we  can  compare  with  the  days  in  which  we  are  living — 
and  dying. 

In  a  cyclone  of  desolations  surpassing  the  terrors  of  the  insane,  the 
world,  so  far  from  recoiling,  rolls  forward  into  vast  and  irrevocable 
changes  that  seemed  hut  yesterday  the  remotest  goals  of  laborious  evo- 
lution ;  rolling  up  the  precipitous  steep  of  custom  in  all  the  fury  with 
which  we  should  look  to  see  it  roll  down.  And  the  unirpie  wonder  of 
this  fifth  and  last  of  these  supreme  events  is  that  only  it  has  sprung  pri- 
marily from  an  evil  design  and  can  attain  its  true  end  only  by  that  de- 
sign's everlasting  overthrow. 

So  speaks  the  matchless  hand  of  Raemaekers.  The  vastest  murderer 
the  race  has  ever  borne  and,  at  his  heels,  his  most  remorseless  waster 
of  blood  together  watch  the  glass  of  time,  abhorring  every  upward  plunge 
of  a  maddened  world  and  daily  hounded  by  one  implacable  question,  one 
four-headed  dog  of  hell:  Will  their  treasury,  will  their  sinking  of  ships, 
will  their  delusion  of  their  own  people,  last? 

No.  One  or  another  will  presently  fail,  and  when  one  fails  all  fail 
and  the  world,  refined  by  fire,  will  be,  shall  be,  saved. 

GEORGE  W.  CABLE. 


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57 


The  Ugly  Talons  of  the  Sinister 

Power  " 


THE  attitude  of  scorn,  of  contempt  and  of  defiance  with  which  Rae- 
niaekers  in  his  cartoon,  "America's  Choice,"  represents  Uncle  Sam 
as  he  confronts  the  treacherous  Kaiser,  bearing  the  ohve  branch 
in  his  talons,  well  expresses  the  attitude  of  the  United  States  to- 
wards Germany  at  the  time  we  entered  the  war,  and  this  attitude  will 
probably  continue  for  a  generation  or  two  after  the  war  ends. 

"The  Intolerable  Thing,"  which  President  Wilson  so  aptly  named  the 
irresponsible  German  Government,  can  never  disguise  itself  so  that  we  will 
not  detect  the  terri])le  menacing  claws  with  which  Raemaekers  portrays  the 
Kaiser.  It  will  continue  to  be  an  Intolerable  Thing  until  the  horrors  of 
this  war  arc  forgotten. 

The  German  philosoph'^rs  brazenly  justify  their  nation's  course  in  this 
aggressive  war  with  all  its  attendant  horrors,  by  an  appeal  to  the  Dar- 
winian doctrines  of  the  struggle  for  existence,  and  the  consequent  survival 
of  the  fittest,  which  i)lay  such  a  prominent  part  in  biological  evolution. 

Germany  must  be  taught  the  lesson  that  while  man  is  the  product  of 
evolution  like  all  other  creatures,  yet  in  his  case  new  factors  come  into 
play— he  is  a  part  of  the  animal  kingdom,  but  is  a  new  kind  of  animal, 
and  new  factors,  not  operative  in  the  orders  below  him,  have  played  lead- 
ing roles  in  his  development.  These  factors  are  his  reason,  which  gi\'es 
him  a  sense  of  the  true  and  the  false,  and  his  conscience,  which  gives  him 
a  sense  of  right  and  wrong.  These  faculties  subordinate  the  rule  of 
might  to  the  rule  of  right,  and  they  have  resulted  in  the  establishment  of 
conduct  for  individuals,  for  communities,  and  for  organized  governments 
that  do  not  exist  in  the  lower  animal  orders,  and  only  in  a  limited  sense  in 
the  lower  human  orders. 

Amid  a  national  rejoicing,  a  waving  of  flags  and  ringing  of  bells,  such 
as  are  evoked  by  a  great  national  festival,  the  Germans  celebrated  the 
Lusitania  murders — the  entire  nation  suddenly  slumping  into  a  barbar- 
ism worse  than  that  of  their  ancestral  Huns.  The  Hun  was  again  tri- 
umphant, gloating  over  his  unspeakable  crimes,  his  plunders  and  piracies, 
his  orgies  of  crime  and  lust — a  spectacle  to  make  the  Genius  of  Human- 
ity veil  her  face  and  weep  tears  of  blood. 

It  is  a  comfort  to  know  that  the  Allies  have  killed  or  rendered  harmless 
several  million  of  these  modern  barbarians,  and  that  many  of  their  car- 
cases have  gone  to  enrich  the  soil  of  France  and  Uelgium.  In  this  way 
a  dead  Hun  mav  help  to  undo  some  of  the  e\-il  which  a  living  Hun  has 
wrought.  If  two  or  three  of  their  bodies  could  be  planted  in  every  shell 
hole  which  their  guns  have  made  in  France  and  Belgium,  though  the 
inoffensive  soil  might  sicken,  yet  in  the  course  of  years  the  poison  of  the 
Hun  would  disappear,  rendered  innocuous  by  the  beneficient  alchemy  of 
Nature. 

JOHN  BURROUGHS. 

Tryon,  N.  C. 

February  12,  1918. 

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Restitution  and  Reparation 

IT  is  with  good  reason  the  Prussian  covers  the  thick  bone  of  his  head 
with  a  hehnet,  for  into  it  ideas  of  right  and  justice  can  only  l^e  bat- 
tered with  a  club.  The  tough,  club-resisting  helmet  is  the  arch-sym- 
bol of  Prussianism.  From  its  earliest  days  Prussia  has  taught  its  neigh- 
bors the  Prussian  theory  of  right  and  justice  by  means  of  a  club.  W'hen 
the  Prussian  wishes  to  educate  his  neighbors  to  an  appreciation  of  Prus- 
sian ethics  he  ]uits  on  his  helmet,  picks  up  a  club  and  slugs  the  neighbor 
on  the  head. 

The  Prussian  theory  of  right  and  justice  is  this:  "What  is  mine  is 
mine,     \\hat  is  yours  is  also  mine  if  I  want  it." 

This  idea  is  deep  buried  beneath  the  thick  bone  of  the  Prussian  head. 
He  holds  it  with  stolid  stupidity  and  deep,  prehistoric  crudity,  like  a  pig 
or  an  idiot.  He  cannot  understand  that  there  are  any  rights  higher  than 
Prussian  greed.  "H  I  want  it,  it  is  mine  because  I  want  it."  It  is  the 
logic  of  the  primitive  human  animal,  the  cave-man. 

Cornered  and  accused  of  his  thefts  he  clings  to  his  loot  like  the  pig  that 
has  stolen  a  carrot.  When  asked  to  disgorge  he  is  shocked  by  the  sug- 
gestion. "But  they  are  mine!  I  wanted  them,  so  they  are  mine!"  he 
says.  Right  and  Justice  answer,  "They  are  not  yours;  you  stole  them." 
"Maybe  so!"  says  the  Prussian.  "But  just  the  same  they  are  mine — I 
stole  them  a  long  time  ago." 

The  logic  of  the  Prussian  fills  ten  thousand  volumes.  It  is  written  in 
hundred-line  paragraphs  and  six-inch  words.  It  can  be  condensed  into  two 
short  words — piggish  greed:  piggish  because  it  knows  neither  right  or  jus- 
tice, greed  because  it  is  greed. 

ELLIS  PARKER  BUTLER. 


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The  Only  Possible  Position  for 

Traitors 

WIlir.E  the  snhniariiic  controversy  was  at  its  height,  a  Hun 
hii^h  in  authority  in  his  nefarious  land  said  that  it  was  im- 
possihle  for  the  United  States  to  enter  the  war,  because  there 
were  a  half  million  German  reservists  in  our  country.  "That  is  true," 
replied  the  American  to  whom  this  contemptucjus  remark  was  addressed; 
"but  there  are  also  a  half  million  lamp-posts." 

Since  the  ( ierman  reservists  have  failed  to  fulfil  the  expectations  of  the 
P'atherland,  the  lamp-posts  of  the  United  States  are  as  yet  unadorned  with 
their  lifeless  bodies.  But  history  has  shown  that  while  Americans  are  an 
easy-going  race,  when  once  their  anger  is  aroused  there  is  no  withholding 
it;  therefore  let  the  traitors  in  our  midst  take  warning  from  the  cartoon 
upon  the  opposite  page. 

One  may  pardon  a  murderer  who  kills  in  a  moment  of  passion,  one 
may  e^■en  revere  a  military  spy  who  penetrates  an  enemy's  lines  to  gather 
information  needful  for  victory;  but  for  the  skulking  traitor  who  whis- 
pers sedition  within  the  land  which  harbors  him  and  seeks  to  hamper  the 
eft'orts  of  its  government  by  a  stealthy  means,  no  punishment  seems  too 
severe,  since  of  all  crimes  his  is  the  most  despicable. 

It  is  not  to  the  half  million  German  reservists  alone  that  Mr.  Rae- 
maekers'  warning  is  addressed;  for,  inconceivable  though  it  be,  there  are 
native-born  traitors  aplenty  to  shame  the  land  which  gave  them  birth. 
For  these,  the  only  position  which  will  seem  possible  to  Uncle  Sam,  when 
once  his  anger,  ever  slow  to  rise,  bursts  forth  in  righteous  indignation, 
will  be  the  one  which  Mr.  Raemaekers  has  depicted.  Let  these  traitors 
remember  that  there  is  an  abundance  of  lamp-posts  in  the  land  as  well  as 
a  goodly  supply  of  hempen  rope. 

H.  C.  CHATFIELD-TAYLOR. 

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63 


Do  You  Mean  to  Make  a  Real 

Warr 


GERMANY  has  once  more  said  that  force,  and  force  alone,  shall 
decide  whether  justice  and  peace  shall  reign  in  the  affairs  of 
men,  whether  right  as  America  conceives  it  or  dominion  as  she 
conceives  it  shall  determine  the  destinies  of  mankind.  There  is,  there- 
fore, l)ut  one  response  possible  for  us:  Force,  force  to  the  utmost,  force 
without  stint  or  limit,  the  righteous  and  triumphant  force  which  shall 
make  right  the  law  of  the  world  and  cast  every  selfish  dominion  down 
in  the  dust." 

— From  President  ll'ilson's  Message  on  the  First  Anniver- 
sary of  the  Declaration  of  War,  April  6,  1918. 


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Justice  ! 


THE  woman  figure  called  Justice  in  Raemaekers'  cartoon  has  a 
Greek  nrnne.  She  is  Themis,  consort  of  Zeus,  Themis,  who  sits 
l)y  his  side  on  the  judgment  seat.  The  scales  are  the  scales  of 
/Egina,  in  her  day  a  great  uKiney  centre,  whose  talent  was  the  standard 
of  value  then,  as  the  American  dollar  is  to-day.  yEgina  was  the  mother 
of  ^acus,  one  of  the  three  great  judges  of  the  lower  world,  and  be  it  re- 
membered, it  was  .-Eacus  that  administered  justice.  yEgina  is  called  by 
one  of  the  greatest  Greek  poets  the  ])lace  where  Themis  is  worshipped 
more  than  anywhere  else  on  earth,  and  he  tells  us  further  that  there  was 
much  weighing  in  .Egina,  the  Merchant  State.  Heavy  weights  there 
were  in  either  scale.  Much  care  was  needful  in  the  weighing,  no  little 
balancing  doubtless.  So  there  were  many  in  our  /Egina  who  felt  the 
draw  of  kindred,  of  friendship,  of  fellowship.  But  this  is  the  Day,  the 
Day  of  Decision,  the  Day  of  Lord  .EZacus.  After  the  knife  edge  of  the 
balance  comes  the  knife  edge  of  the  guillotine. 

BASIL  LAXNEAU  GILDERSLEEVE. 


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Another  Peace  Proposal 

"^IIE  artist  has  depicted  a  spectacled  Old  Gentleman  wearing-  a  triple 
crown  and  a  pontifical  mantle,  who  is  offering  a  proposal  of  peace 
to  a  heroic  young  woman,  torn,  bleeding,  thorn-crowned,  l)ut 
dauntless,  who  spurns  it  with  scorn.  The  spectacled  Old  Gentleman  is 
the  Pope;  the  heroic  young  woman  is,  I  take  it,  outraged  Justice. 

Since  Justice  is  our  cause,  we  must  try  to  be  just.  The  Pope  is  not 
lying  on  a  bed  of  roses.  Pie  is  in  a  position  (jf  the  utmost  difficulty. 
He  has  faithful  adherents  on  both  sides,  he  dislikes  war,  and  finds  his 
perplexities,  great  enough  in  time  of  peace,  now  magnified  an  hundred- 
fold. He  is  not  a  hero;  he  is  old,  he  is  a  lover  of  ease,  and  would  dearly 
like  to  wear  a  Iving's  crown  and  hear  multitudes  in  .St.  F'eter's  crv  out 
"Papa-Re,  Papa-Re."  Let  us  be  just.  The  first  Pope  (according  to  Ro- 
man Catholic  reckoning),  received  the  grace  of  a  great  opportunity  to  be 
true  to  his  Master,  but  he  denied  Him  thrice.  Why  should  we  be  sur- 
prised to  find  Benedict  XV  denying  his  Master?  Fate  has  held  out  her 
hand  to  him,  as  she  held  it  out  to  St.  Peter,  and  offered  him  his  oppor- 
tunity to  be  greatly  true.  In  the  old  happy  days  when  all  the  world  cried 
"hosanna"  to  Justice,  the  Pope  also  had  professed  himself  a  disciple  of 
Justice.  But  now  Justice  has  been  taken  by  bloody-minded  men  to  be 
crucified,  and  the  Pope  has  stayed  afar  off'.  Many  witnesses  have  re- 
marked, "This  man  also  was  a  professed  disciple  of  Justice."  And  now 
the  Pope  denies  it  vehemently.  He  has  put  forward  a  series  of  humili- 
ating proposals  that  Justice — heroic,  bleeding  Justice — should  hold  out  her 
hand  to  the  murderers  of  Belgium  and  confer,  as  if  there  had  been  equal 
error  on  both  sides,  upon  the  crafty  schemes  of  peace  by  which  Ger- 
many hopes  to  dominate  the  world. 

Poor  Old  Gentleman !  Timidity,  love  of  ease,  fear  of  Austria,  and 
fantastic  ambition,  have  induced  him  to  deny  his  ^Master.  The  cock  will 
crow,  and  he  will  weep  bitterly.     Poor,  pitiable  Old  Gentleman. 

HENRY  DWTGHT  SEDGWICK. 

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The  Fine  American  Spirit 

WHO  are  these,  watching  froni  ancestral  doors 
The  mstant  passing  of  our  youth  to  France? 
Henceforth,  a  chapter  of  the  world's  romance 
Their  eyes  have  seen;  it  fills  their  native  shores 
With  an  undying  moment ;  now  it  pours 
On  silent  breasts,  o'erawed,  the  voice,  the  glance, 
The  last,  fond  gleam  of  each  l(i\'ed  countenance, 
And  the  heart  trembles,  while  the  spirit  soars. 

The  generations  draw  immortal  breath 

That  breathe  a  nation's  soul.     From  sire  to  son 

The  glory  of  the  fathers  entereth 

The  children's  hearts,  and  maketh  all  as  one: 

Bright,  at  time's  touch,  breaks  out  the  holy  flame, 

And  to  all  lands  doth  freedom's  blood  proclaim. 

G.  E.  WOODBERRY. 


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Poisoning  the  Well  of  Public 

Opinion 

ALIENS  in  this  country  must  assist  in  maintaining  the  liberty  they 
enjoy,  or  we  shall  know  the  reason  why. 
"Ninety-five  per  cent,  of  the  people  of  the  United  States  would 
die  as  willingly  for  their  beliefs  as  the  men  of  1776.     It  is  for  the  other 
5  per  cent,  to  show  not  the  slightest  manifestation  of  disloyalty. 

"Our  message  to  them  will  be  delivered  through  the  criminal  courts  all 
over  the  land.  And  may  God  have  mercy  on  them,  for  they  need  expect 
none  from  an  outraged  people  and  an  avenging  government." 

— Speech  of  Attorney-General  Gregory  in  Nezv  York,  Novem- 
ber, 1917. 


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The  Enemy  Within 

N(  )T  even  the  prodigiinis  Cruelty  uf  the  Germans  in  this  Atrocious 
War  has  shocked  the  moral  sense  of  mankind  as  much  as  has 
their  Deceit.  We  are  horror-stricken  by  the  reports  of  their 
premeditated  cruelties  which  link  the  Germans  with  the  beasts — the  wolf, 
and  tiger,  and  boa  constrictor,  and  vulture.  The  beast  does  these  things 
because  he  has  never  risen  to  a  higher  plane  than  that  of  the  beast. 
But  Deceit  is  the  attribute  of  Man;  of  one  who  dwells  above  the  stand- 
ards of  the  brute  creation,  who  has  had  the  moral  sense  developed  in 
him,  who  has  known  the  compulsions  of  conscience,  who  has  acknowl- 
edged the  obligations  of  duty,  and  has  recognized  himself  as  being  a  striver 
after  the  Ultimate  Good.  Through  some  flaw  in  the  German's  nature  all 
these  qualities  in  him  changed,  turned  Iiad,  and  he  hailed  Evil  as  his 
guide  and  inspiration.  W^hatever  of  good  there  was  in  him  he  uses  to  pro- 
mote his  wicked  designs.  Had  he  not  been  human  he  could  never  have 
understood  hfjw  to  make  his  perverted  nature  work  successfully  to  deceive 
his  fellow-men.  The  snake  and  panther  do  not  deceive  us,  we  know  their 
ways  and  guard  against  them.  FUit  the  moral  pervert  can  deceive,  be- 
cause he  hides  his  purpose  and  his  method  behind  the  mask  of  a  counter- 
feited virtue. 

Lying  is  the  commonest  form  of  Deceit.  The  German  Emperor  prac- 
tised it  for  twenty-five  3?ears,  when  he  proclaimed  to  the  world  his  ardent 
desire  for  peace;  and  it  was  natural  for  him  tn  lie  when,  on  making  war, 
he  declared  that  the  sword  was  forced  into  his  hands.  Then  the  German 
nation,  fed  so  long  on  falsehood,  accepted  this.  Another  common  form 
of  German  Deceit  has  been  to  accuse  their  enemies  of  the  very  enormities 
which  they  themselves  invented  and  carried  out.  Diplomatic  chicane  is 
a  commdnplace  tool  which  the  Germans  employed,  only  clumsily.  Hut  we 
cannot  measure  the  full  extent  of  German  Deceit  unless  we  follow  it  in 
its  varied  propaganda  among  foreign  peoples,  in  its  spies,  its  instigators  to 
violence,  its  corrupters  of  the  press.  It  poisons  food  and  wells;  it  sets 
fires  to  burn  crops  or  forests;  it  hires  ruffians  to  burn  factories  or  blow^ 
them  up,  to  hide  bombs  in  ships;  it  incites  sabotage  and  strikes. 

So  universally  do  Germans  take  to  Deceit,  that  it  has  evidently  become 
their  national  trait.  The  soul  of  Germany  is  a  lost  soul,  which  worships 
Satan  as  its  master  and  welcomes  Evil  as  its  Good. 

W  ILLIA^I  ROSCOE  THAYER. 
74 


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75 


Count  von  Bernstorff:  "Noblesse 

Oblige  " 

BEHOLD  this  group  of  sinister  and  menacing  forms  surrounding 
llic  nation  as  typified  in  the  ijerson  of  its  President.  For  four 
years  past  they  have  been  coming,  one  by  one,  out  of  the  dark- 
ness. We  can  now  only  too  well  recognize  them  and  the  dangers  with 
which  thcv  threaten  us.  Tn  front,  there  is  arrogant,  boastful,  jealous  and 
unscrupulous  Hate,  with  its  policy  of  "might  before  right,"  and  its  doc- 
trine of  "frightfulness,''  conscienceless  and  cruel,  in  its  murder  of  the 
innocent,  its  arson,  its  robbery,  its  slavery  of  the  weak,  and  its  outrages 
of  womanhood.  Crouching,  while  it  tramples  on  our  flag,  is  Treachery, 
ready  to  use  pistol  and  dagger,  to  burn  bridges,  to  place  bombs,  to  blow 
up  ships,  to  hide  and  sneak  and  cringe,  if  only  it  can  deliver  its  blow  more 
surely  and  safely.  And  back  of  both,  is  hypocritical  and  lying  Diplomacy, 
with  its  protestations  of  innocence  and  friendliness, — studiedly  polite  in 
manner,  but  really  black  at  heart. 

Behind,  all  engaged  in  tying  the  nation's  hands,  lest  it  might  strike 
promptly  and  forcefully,  is  Pacifism,  cowardly  and  self-seeking,  more  anx- 
ious to  avoid  temporary  suffering  than  to  preserve  the  honor  and  safety 
of  the  nation ;  and  Divided  Allegiance,  traitorous  to  both  causes  which 
it  vainlv  endeavors  to  harmonize;  and  Intrigue,  working  in  secrecy  to 
part  friends,  and  stir  up  strife  between  those  whose  interests  are  com- 
mon, or  even  identical. 

But  out  of  the  darkness  comes  also  the  call  to  the  nation:  "America! 
awake.  Open  your  blinded  eyes.  Banish  partisanship.  Abjure  polit- 
ical jealousies.  Leave  it  to  the  men  who  know.  Make  your  hearts  stout. 
Grasp  the  sword  firmly.  Listen  to  no  compromises,  until  the  nation  is 
proved  worthy  of  its  liirthright,  civilization  is  rescued,  and  the  world 
made  safe  for  Democracy." 

GEORGE  TRUMBULL  LADD. 


76 


77 


Peter  the  Hermit 

"Dieu  le  Veult!'' 

THE  Prussian  outdoes  the  world  in  his  single-minded  devotion  to 
physical  things.  He  believes  and  frankly  declares  that  mercy  and 
honor  weaken  human  power,  that  if  you  consider  them  you  must 
eventually  fall  before  the  strong  who  disregard  them.  Germany's  at- 
tempt to  prove  the  soundness  of  the  Prussian  thesis  has  gradually  loos- 
ened the  moral  consciousness  of  the  world.  It  has  gathered  to  defend 
the  things  of  the  spirit  in  what  is  as  truly  a  crusade  as  that  which  Peter 
the  Hermit  led,  a  crusade  to  preserve  the  sanctity  of  contract,  the  few 
laws  between  nations  that  men  have  worked  out,  the  right  of  the  weak 
to  their  chance.  Germany,  disbelieving  in  the  strength  that  love  of  mercy 
and  of  honor  give  men,  cannot  counter-attack  in  kind.  Every  day  devel- 
ops more  clearly  that  the  weak  place  in  the  Prussian  armor  is  its  indiffer- 
ence to  moral  considerations. 

IDA  M.  TARBELL. 


78 


79 


The  Germ-Man 


THE  stout  gentleman  on  the  opposite  page  wears  a  pleased  look,  as 
if  he  were  enjoying  his  occupation.  That  is  natural,  for  ho  is  a 
scientist  engaged  in  a  very  pretty  process — the  propagation  of 
lockjaw,  typhus  and  other  malignant  germ  cultures  with  which  he  ex- 
pects to  speed  up  the  annihilation  of  his  enemies.  How  does  he  pro- 
pose to  accomplish  this?  I  will  tell  you:  he  is  going  to  introduce  those 
young  and  vigorous  colonies  of  germs  into  those  little  packages  marked 
with  a  cross  which  you  see  lying  on  the  table  before  him.  Those  are 
Red  Cross  bandages,  and  they  will  presently  be  binding  the  wounds  of  our 
soldiers,  and  the  lockjaw  and  typhus  hordes  in  them  will  awake,  and  rally 
in  a  silent  loathsome  attack  that  will  lay  torture  and  death  upon  thou- 
sands which  the  noisy,  mis-aimed  guns  have  failed  to  destroy.  The 
germ-man  is  assured  that  his  atomic  missiles  will  not  be  mis-aimed.  His 
government  has  efficiently  arranged  for  those  packages  to  go  to  the  hos- 
pitals of  Roumania  and  Belgium  and  France.  That  is  why  he  smiles — 
that  is  why  he  has  that  roguish  look. 

In  the  germ-man's  smile  is  incarnated  "Deutschland  liber  Alles"  and 
its  correkitive,  "The  end  justifies  the  means."  W'e  in  America  have  pro- 
duced exponents — criminal  exponents — of  a  similar  psychology,  and  we 
have  generally  (when  we  could  catch  them)  hung  or  electrocuted  or  im- 
prisoned for  life  these  moral  perverts,  in  order  to  make  the  world  a  safer 
and  cleaner  place  to  live  in.  Only  a  little  while  ago  the  State  of  New 
York  electrocuted  a  man  who,  having  set  up  his  individual  "Ueber  Alles 
and  General  Justification"  court,  had  proceeded  cheerfully  to  introduce 
malignant  germs  and  other  deadly  things  into  the  foods  and  medicines  of 
his  wife's  parents,  who  stood  between  himself  and  fortune.  Here  we  have 
an  exact  parallel.  Those  defenceless  old  people  were  doing  him  no  wrong. 
They  in  fact  admired  and  trusted  him,  just  as  Rumania  and  Belgium  and 
America  only  a  little  while  ago  admired  and  trusted  Germany.  They 
stood  in  his  way,  however,  and  from  the  "Ueber  Alles"  standpoint  any 
means  for  their  removal  was  warranted. 

Secret  assassination  is  an  ancient  art.  It  has  been  practised  in  every 
age  and  in  every  nation  and  its  votaries  ha\-e  been  hunted  down  and  ex- 
terminated by  decent  people.  To-day,  for  the  first  time  in  the  history  of 
the  world,  we  have  the  spectacle  of  stealthy  death  for  the  defenceless 
adopted  as  a  government  policy.  For  the  decency  and  safety  of  man- 
kind the  allied  nations  have  highly  resolved  that  the  government  which 
promotes  such  a  policy  must  "perish  from  the  earth." 

ALBERT  BIGELOW  PAINE. 
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81 


"A  Tid-Bit  for '  The  Sick  Man ' " 

THE  nearness  to  America  of  the  European  theatre  of  war  so  greatly 
fills  our  minds  with  the  contest  there  raging-  that  we  give  but  lit- 
tle thought  to  the  progress  of  events  in  the  far  countries  tribu- 
tary to  the  Tigris  River.  For  a  time,  the  heroic  resistance  of  Gen- 
eral Townsend  to  the  Turkish  forces  which  surrounded  him  aided  by  the 
natural  obstacles  of  river  and  climate,  claimed  a  share  of  our  interest, 
and  later,  the  splendid  and  successful  work  achieved  by  the  new  British 
army  under  General  A'laude,  awakened  renewed  interest  in  a  campaign 
designed  to  split  Islam  into  two  parts:  one,  acknowledging  the  domina- 
tion of  the  Turk  and  his  German  masters;  the  other,  a  new  Caliphat  of 
Bagdad,  Arabian,  rather  than  Turkish,  looking  to  the  ideals  of  justice 
and  freedom,  rather  than  to  the  rule  of  the  sword ;  finding  its  inspiraton 
in  the  tradition  of  the  enlightened  and  humane  Haroun-al-Raschid,  rather 
than  the  warring,  bloody  conquerors  and  Muhammed  and  Sulinian.  Still 
later,  the  northward  progress  of  British  arms  extended  over  the  greater 
part  of  I^alestine,  and  the  capture  of  Jerusalem  brought  the  sacred  places 
of  Israel  and  of  Christianity  within  the  control  of  Christendom  after  five 
centuries  of  Turkish  occupation. 

These  campaigns  are  only  second  in  importance  to  the  progress  of  the 
German  invasion  of  France;  for  if  the  British  successes  in  Arabia  and 
Palestine  shall  be  maintained,  and  the  Islamites  of  Egypt,  Arabia  and 
Mesopotamia  shall  lo<ik  in  the  future  to  the  Caliph  of  Bagdad,  not  to  the 
Sultan  of  Turkey,  as  their  spiritual  head,  the  great  German  scheme  of 
aggression  in  the  Near  East  will  have  been  defeated. 

The  subtle  Teuton  suggestion  to  the  Turk  of  a  Pan-Turanian  league, 
was  l)ut  a  scheme  for  the  promotion  of  a  closer  Turkish  organization  un- 
der German  control,  as  Raemaekers'  cartoon,  "A  Tid-Bit  for  the  Sick 
Man,"  so  cleverly  intimates.  The  Turks  should  have  said  to  themselves, 
"Beware  of  the  Greeks — the  Prussians — and  the  gifts  they  bring."  A 
German  gift  is  like  the  shirt  of  Nessus, — it  will  consume  utterly  those 
who  accept  it. 

Not  alone  on  the  shores  of  the  Mediterranean,  but  on  the  Persian  Gulf, 
on  the  Baltic,  on  the  English  Channel,  in  the  Caribbean,  on  the  Pacific, 
— there  is  no  limit  to  the  schemes  of  expansion  of  German  control  to 
which  that  nation  in  its  mad  lust  of  power  has  given  itself.  Never  since 
the  dawn  of  recorded  history  has  an  issue  been  made  so  plain.  Aiit 
Cccsar  ant  nullus.  The  world  must  choose  between  Germany,  the  highly 
developed,  hyperorganized,  scientific  state,  proceeding  on  the  openly 
avowed  theory  that  might  alone  makes  right,  and  that  no  principle  of 
ethics,  morality  or  religion  must  be  allowed  to  affect  or  deter  a  course 
which  scientific  militarism  determines  to  be  best  calculated  to  attain  a  pre- 
determined end,  and  the  other  nations,  who  believe  in  God  and  in  His 
justice,  who  conceive  that  it  doth  not  profit  a  nation  to  gain  the  whole 
world  at  the  cost  of  its  soul. 

Once  this  issue  is  manifest  to  the  world,  the  result  cannot  l)e  in  doubt. 

GEORGE  \Y.  WICKERSHAM. 
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oo(<.  t\ft  Fi  )ici  r't^i  i._   


83 


Plain  Language  from  Truthful 

James 

The  Mexican- Japanese  Plot 

"For  ways  that  are  dark 
And  tricks  that  are  vain — " 


84 


85 


Helping  Hindenburg  Home 

WE  regret  being  unable  on  this  occasion  to  follow  the  counsels 
of  our  masters,  the  French,  but  the  American  ilag  has  been 
forced  to  retire.  This  is  unendurable,  and  none  of  our  sol- 
diers would  understand  their  not  being  asked  to  do  whatever  is  necessary 
to  reestablish  a  situation  which  is  humiliating  to  us  and  unacceptable  to 
our  country's  honor.     \\t  are  going  to  counter-attack." 

This  was  a  message  sent  by  an  American  general  in  command  of  Amer- 
ican forces  south  of  the  Marne  on  Monday  afternoon  after  the  Germans 
had  succeeded  in  forcing  the  Americans  back  towards  Conde-en-Brie. 

The  French  commander  had  informed  the  American  general  that  the 
earlv  German  success  could  not  have  any  great  effect  on  the  fate  of  the 
battle;  that  it  was  understood  perfectly  that  after  hard  fighting  the  Amer- 
icans had  slowly  retired,  and  that  it  was  not  exi)ected  that  they  immedi- 
ately launch  a  counter-attack.  He  added  that  a  counter-attack  could  be 
postponed  without  risk,  and  it  might  be  better  to  gi\-e  the  American  troops 
an  hour's  rest. 

Immediately  after  the  American  general  sent  the  alxwe  message,  which 
is  quoted  by  the  correspondent  of  the  "Matin,"  the  Americans  launched 
their  counter-attack  and  the  lost  ground  was  soon  recovered,  with  an 
additional  half  mile  taken  from  the  Germans  for  good  measure. 

The  Xcxv  York  Times,  July  18,  1918. 


86 


87 


A  Bad  Prophet 


The  AII-Highcst:  ^''Only  a  sham  war  with  Uncle 
Sam?     Oh,  Hollweg,  you  are  a  bad  prophet! 

ONE  of  the  delusions  the  German  Government  and  its  General 
Statif  have  been  laboring  under  for  many  years  is  that  the  United 
States  could  not  create  an  army  that  was  worth  consideration 
as  a  foe.  That  Government  and  its  General  Staff  are  tasting  the  quality 
of  our  troops  in  the  field,  and  the  flavor  is  bitter  on  their  tongues.  One 
hundred  and  twenty-six  years  ago  there  was  fought  a  battle  in  France 
(at  Valmy,  within  the  zone  of  war  today)  on  the  date  that  France  first 
called  herself  a  republic.  Kellermann  won  that  battle  against  the  Prussians 
and  Austrians  with  levies  of  new  troops  from  the  lower  and  middle  classes 
of  France,  who  "found  that  they  could  face  cannon  balls,  pull  triggers, 
and  cross  bayonets  without  having  been  drilled  into  military  machines,  and 
without  being  officered  by  scions  of  noble  houses."  They  had.  it  seems, 
the  same  spirit  we  like  to  think  animates  our  army,  which  the  Germans 
abroad  and  some  critics  at  home  denied  our  men :  "they  awoke  to  the  con- 
sciousness of  instinctive  soldiership." 

The  Army  and  Navy  Journal. 


88 


— ^J^-'"^  r\'>'*rv>nff;^r^ 


89 


At  the  Holland  Frontier 

WHETHER     THE     WAR     BE 
LONG      OR      SHORT,      THE 
QUICKEST  ROAD  TO  PEACE 
IS  THE  ROAD  STRAIGHT  AHEAD  OF  US, 
WITH  NO  DIVISION  AMONG  THE  AMER- 
ICAN PEOPLE. 

WILLIAM  JEXNIXGS  BRYAN. 


90 


91 


A  Rehearsal 

^^Wke/i  I  say,  Down  with  Wilson!  you  all  cheer!''' 


92 


93 


The  Path  of  Kultur 


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I'.RI''  ran  a  r<iad  for  lovers  once, 
With   maples   in   the  moon; 
And  under  a  bridge  a  water  went 
Weaving  a  dreamy  rune. 


And  high  upon  the  sycamores, 

The  nightingales  all  night 
Besieged  the  dark  with  melody, 

Disturbed  the  boughs  with  flight. 

And  here  in  coverts  of  tall  grass 

Looked  up  a  friendly  spring, 
Glad  to  behold  a  face  bent  down, 

Or  feel  a  fleeting  wing. 

But  now  the  lovers  come  no  more; 

The  road  is  rutted  and  marred 
By  wheels  and  shrieking  shells :  the  trees 

Are  shattered,  chopt  and  charred. 

New  graves  are  billowing  now :  the  field 

Like  windy  water  heaves : 
The  nightingales  are  gone :  the  spring 

Is  choked  with  bloody  leaves. 

And  here  at  noon  a  vulture  swoops 

On  obscene  errands  bound: 
And  here  at  night  remembering  ghosts 

Go  by  without  a  sound. 

EDWIN  MARKHAM. 


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95 


To  the  Victor! 


France  crowns  with  laurel  the  dead  American 
aviator, 

THO'  the  American  mother  mourns  across  the  seas  for  her  hero 
son,  who  has  touched  the  skies  in  France,  the  foster  mother  lays 
her  laurel  of  glory  on  the  bier  of  Youth,  whose  brave  spirit  in 
passing  welds  an  eternal  bond  of  sympathy  and  union  to  the  end. 

GERALDINE  FARRAR. 
June  23, 1918. 


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The  Eyes  of  the  Army 

\-\\i  great  poet  of  Victoria's  reign,  in  his  wondrous  vision  of  tlie 
future. 

Saw  the    heavens    fill    with    commerce,  argosies  of  magic  sails, 
l^ilots  of  the  purple  twilight,  dropping  down  with  costly-bales  ; 

Heard  the  heavens  fill   with  shouting,  and  there  rained  a  ghastly  dew 
From  the  nation's  airy  navies  grappling  in  the  central  blue ; 

Far  along  the   world-wide  whisper  of  the  south-wind  rushing  warm. 
With  the  standards  of  the  peoples  plunging  through  the  thunder-storm ; 

Till  the  war  drum  throlibed  no  longer,  and  the  battle-Hags  were  furled 
In  the  Parliament  of  Man,  the  Federation  of  the  World 

Dealing-  not  witl:  the  shadowy  future  but  with  the  actual  present  the 
great  Artist  of  the  Great  War  sees  aerial  navigation,  not  in  terms  of 
commerce  nor  of  battle  engines,  but  as  the  "Eyes  of  the  Army";  the 
sense  without  which  the  terrestrial  movements  of  war,  both  by  land  and 
sea,  tend  to  become  mere  blind  and  purposeless  blundering.  With  one 
graceful  figure  in  a  finely  balanced  design  the  artist  tells  the  story. 

Future  generations  will  be  grateful  to  the  Prussians  for  one  thing — and 
one  thing  only.  From  war — that  "noble  art  of  murdering,"  as  Thack- 
eray called  it,  they  have  stripped  the  last  vestiges  of  romantic  glamor. 
They  have  not  hesitated  to  press  the  premises  of  militarism  to  their  log- 
ical conclusion, — with  results  that  have  staggered  humanity. 

In  one  field  only  has  it  been  possible  for  something  of  the  old  knightly 
chivalry  to  linger.  Romance,  driven  from  earth,  has  taken  wings;  and 
the  world,  sated  with  horrors  of  trench  and  shambles,  thrills  with  eager 
wonder  at  the  new  science  of  the  sky;  at  the  individual  skill  and  daring 
of  its  pilots  and  their  wonderful  service  to  their  fighting  brethren  on 
earth. 

But  even  as  we  read  of  these  things  come  tales  of  Zeppelin  raids  over 
defenseless  cities  and  the  deliberate  dropping  of  bombs  upon  hospitals. 

Civilized  warfare !  it  is  a  contradiction  in  terms.  It  may  be  necessary, 
— it  has  proved  to  be  necessary,  for  civilized  men  to  fight  the  barbarians 
in  order  to  uphold  and  preserve  the  great  principle  of  individual  liberty ; 
but  war  must  come  to  an  end  among  civilized  peoples;  and  to  that  end 
there  must  be  a  closer  and  closer  union  of  such  as  care  for  law  and  order, 
believe  that  the  weak  have  rights  which  must  be  protected,  and  are  will- 
ing to  base  their  governments  on  the  firm  and  enduring  foundations  of 
Liberty,  Equality  and  Fraternity. 

THO^IAS  MOTT  OSBORNE. 

July  19,  1918. 

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99 


Is  It  Nothing  to  You,  All  Ye 
Who  Pass  By  f  " 


ATX  we  need  to  remember  hour  by  hour  is  that  we  are  living-  through 
the  greatest  crisis  in  the  history  of  the  world;  that  the  greatest 
number  of  people  are  concerned  in  it  ever  concerned  in  one  thing 
before;  and  that  the  most  important  epoch  concerning  humanity  since 
the  birth  of  Christ  is  now  at  hand;  that  humanity  is  about  to  fall  to  a 
lower  plane  of  living  or  rise  to  a  higher  one  than  it  has  ever  reached;  that 
we  can  only  do  our  little  share  toward  that  rising  by  stiffening  ourselves 
to  a  long  endurance.  We  have  proven  our  mere  ability  to  give  valuable 
service.  What  we  must  prove  now  is  our  patience  and  steadfastness,  with- 
out which  brilliancy  is  worthless.  We  must  strike  a  pace  which  we  can 
hold,  both  mentally  and  physically  and  plod  on  together.  We  must  and 
we  will  be  ready,  for  our  own  sake,  for  our  country's  sake  and  for  the 
sake  of  what  the  world  was  created  for. 

RACHEL  CROTHERS. 


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101 


The  Rainbow  Division  Leaves 

for  France 

AS  the  rainbow  is  heaven's  token  of  faith,  so  have  we  faith  in  these 
modern  knights  journeying  to  bekjved  France  to  give  battle  to  in- 
vading barbarians. 
Ponder  a  moment  over  these  men  of  the  Rainbow  Division,  lads 
with  minds  clean  as  their  hearts  are  true,  and  compare  them  with  the  blood- 
craving  hordes  reared  in  a  school  having  no  other  aim  than  to  kill  their 
fellow  beings.  One  is  Man  in  the  superlative,  and  for  the  other  there  is 
no  name  sufficiently  abhorrent. 

When  an  iVmerican  soldier  enters  Hun  territory  we  know  how  scrupu- 
lously the  laws  of  humanity  will  be  respected :  he  will  at  least  be  knightly 
and  merciful. 

And  the  four  years'  record  of  German  savagery  is  so  well  known  that 
it  must  forever  befoul  the  pages  of  history. 

Lack  of  opportunity  in  the  library  has  prevented  a  thorough  explora- 
tion of  the  unspeakable  atrocities  of  the  early  Huns  who  under  Attila 
ravaged  a  great  part  of  Europe.  But  sufficiently  have  I  read  to  be  con- 
vinced that  the  Huns  and  Wandals  and  Goths  of  early  history,  compared 
with  the  Hohenzollern-inspired  fiends,  were  scarcely  more  than  bungling 
altruists.  We  know  it  to  be  fact  that  German  soldiers  murdered  priests 
and  raped  nuns  in  Belgium,  violated  practically  every  young  woman  in 
the  x-Msne  and  Champagne,  razed  defenseless  towns  and  hamlets  in  these 
French  Departments,  murdered  old  people  and  children  and  mutilated 
youths  everywhere,  delighted  in  destroying  hospital  ships  and  treated  Red 
Cross  signs  as  targets  for  their  guns,  inoculated  French  prisoners  as  a 
means  of  furthering  the  Berlin  plan  to  diminish  the  French  race,  and 
in  cold  blood  murdered  scores  of  women  and  children  on  the  Lusifania. 

These  are  awful  indictments,  with  not  one  excusable  on  the  ground  of 
military  need  or  expediency.  Given  trial  at  the  bar  of  civilization  their 
perpetrators  must  forever  be  judged  as  outside  the  pale  of  humanity  and 
hereafter  can  have  no  standing  in  lands  where  the  principles  of  Chris- 
tianitv  and  humanity  have  a  meaning.  With  my  own  eyes  I  have  seen 
scores  of  proofs  of  German  "f rightfulness" ;  with  me  it  is  not  hearsay. 
And  remember  that  it  was  none  other  than  Goethe  who  wrote  that  "the 
Prussian  was  born  a  brute,  and  civilization  will  make  him  ferocious." 

Positive  is  it  that  the  United  States  and  her  Allies  w^ill  crush  the  con- 
scienceless militarism  of  Germany,  and  ever  of  good  omen  is  the  Rain- 
bow, telling  of  improving  skies  and  perfect  conditions  for  the  morrow. 

FREDERIC  COURTLAND  PENFIELD,  American  Am- 
bassador to  Austria-Hungary,  1913-1917. 


102 


103 


Russia  Reborn 


IN  a  hundred  years  nu  people  has  been  so  tortured  and  abused  by  rul- 
ers of  its  own  blood  and  faith  as  the  Russians.  The  free  peoples 
have  nothing  in  their  experience  by  which  they  can  imagine  the  greed 
and  cruelty  of  which  the  subjects  of  the  Romanoffs  have  been  the  vic- 
tims. No  adequate  picture  of  the  diabolical  old  regime  can  be  painted  till 
scholars  have  had  time  to  explore  its  archives  and  expose  the  dark  forces 
that  operated  it. 

Let  no  one  look  for  Freed  Russia  to  be  shining  and  beautiful.  From 
the  gloomy  caverns  in  which  they  have  mouldered  the  Russian  people 
stagger  out  upon  the  sunlit  heights  of  freedom  weak,  bent,  half  blind. 
Few  of  the  older  will  ever  concjuer  the  dense  ignorance  in  which  they 
were  kept  by  autocracy.  Few  of  the  characters  twisted  and  deformed  by 
oppression  will  ever  become  quite  straight.  In  the  behavior  of  this  peo- 
ple there  will  be  exhibited  folly,  fanaticism  and  brutality  that  will  make 
the  peoples  born  free  uneasy  as  to  the  new  sister. 

Whatever  happens,  doubt  not  that  the  Russians  are  gifted  and  great- 
hearted. Their  excesses  have  proclaimed  how  much  they  were  held  back 
and  l)rutalized  by  the  Tsars.  It  will  take  long  for  them  to  rid  themselves 
of  the  traces  of  their  servitude  and  misery.  Even  the  children  born  in 
the  new  era  will  catch  from  their  parents  some  of  the  evil  heritage.  Only 
the  grandchildren  of  the  common  people  of  today  will  come  into  the  full 
birthright  of  the  free  and  prove  the  worth  that  is  in  the  Russian  race. 

EDWARD  ALSWORTH  ROSS. 


104 


105 


Higher  Than  a  Sour  Apple  Tree 

OTHER  wars  end  with  those  who  made  them.  It  is  the  will  of  the 
German  Emperor  that  his  war  should  pass  on  like  a  blight  from 
generation  to  generation  upon  those  whose  fathers  dared  to 
stand  against  the  ravager.  To  this  end  he  has  not  only  slaughtered  and 
enslaved  the  defenders;  he  has  sought  to  destroy  the  very  fruitfulness  of 
the  land  whereby  their  descendants  must  live. 

To  me  the  deliberate,  coldly  reckoned  murder  of  the  invaded  countries' 
trees  and  vines  so  that  the  children  of  the  slain  and  enslaved  and  their 
children's  children  may  draw  no  sustenance  from  the  kindly  earth — that 
seems  the  most  perverse,  the  most  detestable,  the  most  typical  of  all  the 
crimes  of  Kaiserism. 

The  sterilization  of  Mother  Earth!  It  took  the  mind  of  a  Wilhelm 
to  conceive  it.  And  for  that  offence  against  generations  unborn  he  shall 
hang,  higher  than  was  ever  ruler  before  him,  gibbeted  in  the  righteous 

hatred  of  an  outraged  posterity. 

SAMUEL  HOPKINS  ADAMS. 


106 


107 


"  What  a  Mean  Trick  to  Turn 
on  That  Strong  Light!  " 

PEACE  must  l)e  framed  on  so  equital)le  a  basis  that  the  nations 
would  not  wish  to  disturb  it.  It  must  be  guaranteed  by  destruc- 
tion of  Prussian  mihtary  power,  so  that  the  confidence  of  the  Ger- 
man people  shall  be  put  in  the  equity  of  their  cause  and  not  in  the  might 
of  their  armies.  .  .  .  Europe  is  again  drenched  with  the  blood  of  its  brav- 
est and  its  best,  but  do  not  forget  the  great  succession  of  hallowed  causes. 
They  are  the  stations  of  the  cross  on  the  road  to  the  emancipation  of 
mankind.  I  again  appeal  to  the  people  of  this  country  and  beyond  that 
they  should  continue  to  fight  for  the  great  goal  of  international  rights 
and  international  justice,  so  that  never  again  shall  brute  force  sit  on  the 
throne  of  justice  nor  barbaric  strength  wield  the  sceptre  over  liberty.'' 

From  the  Rt.  Hon.  Daz'id  Lloyd-George's  Glasgow  speech 
on  zvar  aims,  June  29,  1917 


108 


■,^t;jf<-- 


L 


5U(«  i^9fftv»^»ek^i-ff 


109 


Christmas,  1917 

Ox  the  day  (if  the  Xativity,  the  Infant  Brother  of  Humanity  was 
born  and  was  laid  in  a  manger,  there  being  no  room  for  his 
human  mother  at  the  inn.  But  wherever  he  lay — there, 
through  the  mystery  of  his  kinship,  was  the  shining  Gateway  of  Heaven. 
That  translucent  Light,  from  the  moment  of  its  appearance,  intensified, 
as  by  opposite  polarity,  the  baleful  lights  from  all  unholy  fires  in  human 
breasts.  Herod  was  first  aroused  to  the  Slaughter  of  the  Innocents,  and 
he  has  had  his  successors  in  every  age  during  the  growth  of  Christen- 
dom. 

As  the  Light  of  the  World  has  expanded  these  nineteen  centuries,  shin- 
ing in  the  hearts  of  men,  ever  awakening  new  ideas  of  Truth,  Justice,  and 
Mercy,  against  every  fresh  gleam,  promising  wider  horizons  of  human 
Love  and  Sympathy,  have  been  arrayed  the  brutish  hosts,  with  Hatred 
and  Murder  in  their  hardened  hearts.  For  the  present  generation  has 
been  reserved  the  vision  of  the  very  Armageddon  of  this  Conflict,  in 
which  the  world  is  divided  against  itself.  The  Powers  precipitating  it  in- 
augurated it  and  have  in  its  whole  course  attended  it  with  every  conceiv- 
able form  of  atrocity  and  outrage  against  noncombatants — innocent  men. 
women,  and  children.  But  that  Heavenly  Light  which  shone  in  the  sta- 
ble at  Bethlehem  can  never  be  put  out ! 

HENRY  MILLS  ALDEN. 


110 


Ill 


Helping  Uncle  Sam  to  Get  Up 

Speed 

THE  military  masters  of  Germany  denied  us  the  right  to  be  neutral. 
They  filled  our  unsuspecting  communities  with  vicious  spies  and 
conspirators  and  sought  to  corrupt  the  opinion  of  our  people  in 
their  own  behalf.  When  they  found  that  they  could  not  do  that,  then 
agents  diligently  spread  sedition  among  us  and  sought  to  draw  our  own 
citizens  from  their  allegiance.  .  .  . 

"They  have  learned  discretion.  They  keep  within  the  law.  It  is  opin- 
ion they  utter  now,  not  sedition.  They  proclaim  the  liberal  purposes  of 
their  masters ;  declare  this  a  foreign  war  which  can  touch  America  with 
no  danger  to  either  her  lands  or  her  institutions  .  .  .  and  seek  to  under- 
mine the  Government  with  false  professions  of  loyalty  to  its  principles. 

"But  they  will  make  no  headway.  The  false  betray  themselves  always 
in  every  accent.  .  .  .  The  facts  are  patent  to  all  the  world,  and  nowhere 
are  they  more  plainly  seen  than  in  the  United  States,  where  we  are  accus- 
tomed to  deal  with  facts  and  not  with  sophistries ;  and  the  great  fact  that 
stands  out  above  all  the  rest  is  that  this  is  a  people's  war,  a  war  for  free- 
dom and  justice  and  self-government  among  all  the  nations  of  the  world." 

From  President  Wilson  s  Flag  Day  Address,  June  14,  1917. 


112 


113 


The  Wind  of  Democracy 

WITHOUT  doubt,  the  majority  of  the  German  nation  is  still 
monarchist.  The  different  peoples  of  Germany  still  hold  to 
their  princes,  more  or  less,  according  to  the  individual  char- 
acter of  the  sovereigns.  Rut  that  confidence  in  the  supreme  chief  of  the 
Empire  is  still  entirelv  intact  is  an  affirmation  which,  after  three  years 
of  war,  cannot  I)e  maintained.  .  .  .  Confidence  in  the  direction  of  the  Em- 
pire has  begun  to  disappear  among  the  German  people.  .  .  .  They  begin 
to  ask  themselves  how  it  happens  that  nearly  all  the  world  is  in  arms 
against  us,  and  who  is  responsible  for  it." 

Rcpl\  of  Prince  foii  Hohculohc  to  the  clerical  deputy,  Spahn, 
in  the  Reiclistag. 


114 


'"UC5  l'"\ae-ir>i<^if"''\e 


115 


"  This  One  for  the  Babies  " 

GERMANY,  in  her  war  against  Civilization,  has  disregarded  not 
only  International  Law  and  the  ordinary  laws  of  humanity,  but 
has  ruthlessly  set  aside  the  four  great  laws  of  the  social  order 
which  all  civilized  nations  recognize  as  having  a  divine  sanction.  "Thou 
shalt  not  bear  false  witness."  She  has  broken  her  treaties  and  lied  openly, 
frequently,  brazenly.  "Thou  shalt  not  commit  adultery."  She  has  per- 
mitted, if  she  has  not  given  official  sanction  to  rape  committed  upon  a  scale 
never  before  known  in  the  history  of  the  civilized  world.  "Thou  shalt 
not  steal."  She  robbed  her  neighbor's  hills  of  their  coal  and  iron,  her 
neighbor's  fields  of  their  standing  crops,  her  neighbor's  banks  of  their 
money,  her  neighbor's  houses  of  their  pictures,  statuary  and  books,  and 
what  she  could  not  carry  away  she  has  in  mere  wantonness  destroyed. 
"Thou  shalt  not  kill."  She  has  murdered  thousands  of  defenceless  men, 
women,  children,  and  little  babes,  and  has  done  this  not  in  a  sudden  and 
feverish  rage,  but  as  part  of  a  deliberately  conceived  and  carefully  exe- 
cuted policy.     One  must  multiply  Raemaekers'  picture  by  the  thousand  in 

order  to  get  its  full  significance. 

LYMAN  ABBOTT. 


116 


117 


A  Scene  on  the  Somme 

'  T  NFINITELY  interesting  is  our  contact  with  the  American  troops. 
I  They  have  occui)ied  the  sector  immediately  beside  ours.  We  have 
seen  them  at  work,  and  could  form  an  idea,  and  it  should  be  told 
and  retold  that  they  are  marvelous.  The  Americans  are  soldiers  l)y  na- 
ture, and  their  officers  have  the  desire  to  learn  with  an  enthusiasm  and 
an  idealistic  ardor  very  remarkable.  There  is  the  same  spirit  among  the 
privates.  They  ask  (|uestions  with  a  touching  good-will,  setting  aside  all 
conceit  or  prejudice.  Naturally  they  have  the  faults  of  all  new  troops. 
They  show  themselves  too  much  and  expose  themselves  imprudently,  let- 
ting themselves  lie  carried  away  by  their  ardor,  not  knowing  when  to  spare 
themselves  or  to  seek  shelter  or  when  to  risk  everything  for  an  end. 
This  experience  will  be  (juickly  learned. 

"As  for  bravery,  activity,  and  discipline,  they  are  marvelous.  They 
alisolutely  astonished  us  on  a  morning  of  attack.  The  cannonading,  sud- 
denly becoming  furious,  had  just  thrown  me  out  of  my  bunk.  No  doubt 
about  it,  it  was  a  Verdun  attack.  Taking  time  to  seize  my  revolver,  put 
on  my  helmet,  and  gather  up  several  documents,  I  descended  to  the  streets. 
When  I  arri\ed  there  they  were  already  filing  by  with  rapid,  easy,  de- 
cided steps,  marching  in  perfect  order  in  silence  with  admirable  resolu- 
tion, and  above  all  with  striking  discipline,  to  their  fighting  positions. 
It  was  fine.     You  can  have  no  idea  how  cheering  it  was  to  my  Poilus." 

— From  a  letter  of  a  Freiieh   officer  published  in   the  Paris 
"Temps." 


118 


EBMMt»iM»iia.w^ui«"-  iKMitmmumMiMmf  <m 


119 


Hollweg  as  Robespierre 

The  Kaiser:  "//<?  has  managed  to  fool  the  Ger- 
man Socialists.  Why  should  he  not  fool  the  Russian 
Socialists  ? ' ' 

FEW  things  have  been  more  disheartening  in  the  course  of  the  War 
than  the  way  in  which  the  Teutonic  foes  of  liberty  have  used  s(j 
many  friends  of  liberty  in  Russia  as  unwitting  instruments  to  un- 
dermine and  destroy  the  resistance  of  the  Russian  people  to  the  German 
armies. 

Vast  territories,  amounting  to  nearly  half  a  million  square  miles  in 
area,  have  thus  been  abandoned  tcj  German  domination,  practically  with- 
out a  struggle;  and  over  fifty  million  people  in  the  abandoned  regions 
have  seen  their  prospects  of  freedom  vanish. 

The  German  armies  thus  released  from  the  eastern  front  and  poured 
into  northern  France,  have  enormously  increased  the  difficulties  of  the 
Armies  of  Liberty,  battling  in  France  and  Belgium  to  save  the  world  for 
Democracy.  j    ^    PHELPS  STOKES. 


120 


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121 


President  Wilson's  Declaration 


R 


AEMAEKERS  is,  here,  having  the  President  say : 

"When  Germany  is  defealed,  and  peace  can  be  discussed,  we  shall  pay  the 
full  price  of  peace, — namely,  justice  for  all  the  nations." 


We  know  what  justice  will  be  for  the  nations  spoiled.  lUit  what  will 
he  justice  for  the  spoiler?  We  know  what  this  latter  would  be  to  an  in- 
dividual: and  a  nation  is  only  a  greater  individual,  capable  of  greater  mis- 
chief, sul)ject  to  greater  punishment. 

An  individual,  who,  with  progressive  malice,  had  bn^ken  all  the  laws  of 
his  country,  society  and  God,  from  simple  lying,  through  perjury,  rob- 
bery, piracy,  up  to  wholesale  murder,  would  be  destroyed — for  the  good 
of  his  fellowmen  and  as  a  warning  t(j  others.  If  he  should  escape  the 
noose  the  quieter  but  no  less  inevitable  force  of  public  morality  would 
destroy  him.  Neither  man  nor  nation  has  ever  long  lived  by  force,  flaunt- 
ing his  crimes  in  the  face  of  the  world,  committing,  threatening  yet  others. 
Nor  will  Germany.  She  is  now,  I  believe,  in  the  way  of  destruction, 
either  by  the  public  executioner,  or,  more  likely,  by  the  slower,  but  not 
less  certain,  process  of  isolation  and  decay. 

She  has  unmasked  herself  and  we  now  see  the  hideous,  distorted  face 
of  her.  How  can  so  monstrous  a  Thing  have  friends  after  this?  Who 
will  trade  with  her?  Who  will  ever  again  accept  a  promise  of  hers? 
W^ho  but  must  be  ashamed  of  her  name  and  her  language?  Anathema 
she  will  be  to  all  peoples — the  outcast  of  nations — living  for  and  upon  her- 
self, where  her  life-doctrine  of  force  must  inevitably  turn  to  her  own 
destruction.  This  has  been  the  fate  of  every  world-conqueror  and  his 
nation.  And,  surely,  none  of  them  all  has  so  richly  deserved  it  as  this 
intolerable  Germany.  Ask  History!  And,  yet,  to  the  individual,  there 
is  always  left  repentance  and  restoration — even  though  he,  himself,  nmst 
be  destroyed. 

So,  if  this  besotted  Germany  had  but  the  courage  and  virtue  to  lay 
down  her  arms  and  retire  behind  her  own  borders,  she  could  have  the 
peace  she  pretends  to  wish  for  in  twenty-four  hours^for  so  little  and  sim- 
ple and  right  a  thing  as  that ! 

I  think,  indeed,  that  the  nations  she  has  so  wantonly  spoiled  would 
permit  her  to  go  withotit  further  punishment  at  their  hands,  leaving  that 
to  the  very  God  she  has  so  vilely  exploited  as  her  partner  in  her  mon- 
strous crimes.  T  think  they  would  accept  back  the  goods  which  she  has 
stolen,  damaged  as  they  are,  beyond  redemption,  glad  to  be  rid  of  her  and 
her  debasing  contact.  But  she  is  mad.  Germany  is  quite  mad.  She 
would  laugh,  like  a  blood-smeared,  amuck-running  lunatic  at  any  such 
proposition.  Whom  the  gods  wish  to  destroy  they  first  make  mad.  The 
madness  is  accomplished.  I  believe  that  it  will  be  for  the  peace  of  the 
world  that  the  rest  shall  be. 

JOHN  LUTHER  LONG. 
122 


123 


"Don't  Stand  in  Our  Way  to  Victory 


99 


ALL  wars  bring  their  full  measure  of  miseries  and  misfortunes, 
and  this  world  war,  initiated  by  Germany  for  the  purpose  of 
imposing  a  military  domination  upon  Europe  and  America,  and 
conducted  with  methods  which  combine  the  barbaric  standards  of 
the  Huns  and  Mongols  with  the  skilled  mechanism  of  the  twentieth  cen- 
tury, has  brought  upon  the  world  miseries  that  can  hardly  be  estimated 
or  described.  There  are  some  offsets,  however,  even  in  a  contest  like  the 
present,  which  is  a  fight  for  the  preservation  of  civilization  against  the 
onslaughts  of  scientific  jjarbarism.  No  nation  can  take  up  arms  for  the 
defense  of  its  rights  and  liberties  and  for  the  fulfilment  of  its  obligations 
without  bringing  into  the  souls  of  the  people  some  development  of  na- 
tional and  patriotic  spirit. 

The  soldiers  in  the  trenches  and  the  citizens  working  at  home  are 
fighting  and  working  for  a  common  cause. 

They  come  in  this  manner  to  have  realization  of  what  they  owe  to 
each  other,  to  their  country  and  to  their  consciences. 

We  may  feel  assured  that  through  the  sacrifices  that  are  being  made 
today  in  our  country,  of  lives,  of  labor  and  of  wealth,  there  will  be  de- 
veloped from  a  people  which  had  in  its  prosperity  been  growing  rich 
and  lazy-minded  and  forgetful  of  national  morality,  the  soul  of  America. 

Louis  Raemaekers  has  done  more  than  any  one  man  to  bring  into  ex- 
pression the  spirit  of  fierce  indignation  and  horror  that  has  come  not  only 
upon  the  people  of  Belgium  and  of  northeastern  France,  who  have  been 
directly  exposed  to  the  brutal  despotism  of  the  Prussians,  but  upon  all  of 
those  who  are  fighting  to  rescue  the  people  of  these  imprisoned  devas- 
tated provinces,  and  upon  the  whole  civilized  world. 

Raemaekers  has  been  able  with  the  powerful  genius  of  his  pencil  to  give 
expression  in  cartoons  that  belong  to  the  history  of  art  and  of  the  world, 
to  this  protest  of  civilization. 

He  is  a  poet  as  w-ell  as  an  artist. 

His  weird  and  sombre  conceptions  gave  evidence  of  a  powerful  imagi- 
nation. His  work  has  been  compared  to  that  of  Gilray,  but  the  caricatures 
which  in  1805  amused  English  men  and  frightened  English  children 
were  merely  clever  pieces  of  drawing. 

The  wonderful  designs  of  Raemaekers  set  forth  the  devilishness  of  the 
policies  and  the  actions  of  the  Prussians  as  incisively  and  as  conclusively 
as  if  he  had  been  sitting  as  judge  in  the  court  of  final  appeal. 

These  grim  pictures  constitute  indictments  of  great  criminals.  It  is 
impossible  to  tell  how  far  they  may  as  yet  have  penetrated  Germany, 
but  sooner  or  later  these  irrefutable  judgments  of  criminal  acts  will  be 
brought  home  to  the  consciousness  not  only  of  Prussia,  and  of  the  leaders 
who  are  directly  responsible  for  the  murders  and  the  other  horrors,  but 
of  the  whole  people  of  Germany  who,  poisoned  by  the  fumes  of  prussic 
acid  from  Berlin,  have  been  willing  to  give  their  strength  and  their  force 
to  the  attempt  to  impose  Prussian  tyranny  upon  the  peoples  of  the  world. 

,.  ,  1    101Q  GEO.  HAVEN  PUTNAM. 

ichrnary  1,  1918. 

124 


125 


"German  Soldiers  Cut  the  Throat 
of  an  American  Sentry'' 

A  LAYMAN'S  PRAYER  FOR  AMERICAN  SOLDIERS 

OrR  Father  whicli  art  in  Heaven,  bless  and  inspire  our  armies  in 
the  field,  our  ships  upon  the  sea.  Watch  over  the  sons  of  Amer- 
ica fighting  for  Liberty.  Strengthen  and  hearten  them  in  the 
hour  of  pain  and  jieril.  Grant  them  victory,  we  beseech  Thee,  and  lead 
them  safely  home.  Make  us  who  love  them  do  our  part  loyally.  Keep 
us  united  in  our  will  to  bring  upon  earth  a  reign  of  right  and  freedom. 

'''"'^"-  CLEVELAND  MOFFETT. 


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127 


Bang  J 


/ 


'"''Dog-gofie  it,  Hindenburg,  doji't  make  your 
strategic  moves  when  I  am  standing  directly  behind 
you! 


/" 


ON  one  occasion,  when  Hindenburg  reported  having  "carried  out 
his  retreat  according  to  plan,"  the  Kaiser,  encamped  at  the  rear, 
received  a  very  discomfiting  bump.  Evidently,  the  "plan"  was  no 
less  an  inspiration  of  the  moment  than  many  others  the  Germans  have  an- 
nounced, in  order  to  put  a  good  face  upon  their  reverses. 


128 


^s*3fi<u)S^■'^''*  ""i_™ 


■i>»wn^w»friHBwi 


129 


/  Must  Break  in  Here  Before 
That  Comes  Down  " 


THE  small  speck  that  at  first  seemed  a  dull  mist  hanging  over  the 
Western  Hemisphere  caused  little  else  than  sarcastic  flings  at 
our  own  Republic,  and  had  it  licen  possible  to  awaken  pity  in  the 
breast  of  the  Arch  Demon,  striving  to  spread  his  wings  over  the  whole 
world,  some  sympathy  might  have  fallen  to  us,  for  the  weak  mind  we 
showed  in  presuming  we  could  do  anything  to  check  the  Imperial  army  in 
its  brutal  course.  But  happily  great  oaks  from  little  acorns  grow,  from 
stationary  mists  dark  clouds  may  rise,  from  low  uncertain  rumblings  the 
ear-splitting  thunder  clap  may  spring,  and  make  man  and  beast  seek  cover. 
So,  by  the  Grace  of  God,  things  have  developed,  and  the  mist  that  was  a 
banquet  joke,  is  transformed,  and  spread  into  a  veritable  storm,  and  its 
direction  is  across  the  wide  ocean;  it  is  an  on-rusher  that  awakens  a 
craven  fear ;  and  it  well  may.  It  is  no  autumn  cloud,  whose  fleecy  skirts 
the  sun  has  painted  with  gold;  but  something  equalling  the  harbinger  of 
death,  that  the  soothsayers  saw  driving  over  Rome  when  Caesar's  end  was 
nigh;  on  which  could  be  seen  ''Fierce  fiery  warriors  in  ranks,  and  scjuad- 
rons  and  in  right  form  of  war";  and  from  which  blood  is  drizzling,  not 
only  to  fall  over  France,  or  Flanders,  but  perhaps  to  darken  the  sky,  and 
crimson  the  soil,  even  at  that  nest  of  iniquity,  Potsdam. 

PALMER  COX. 


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i^i^rr,.-.,-,.;  . .  1 


131 


Bring  Her  In  ! 


YEA,  brin^  her  in — the  scarlet  sign  of  shame! 
Of  .shuddering  horror  to  all  times  and  lands ! 
Bring  her,  though  late,  to  justice.     Those,  her  hands, 
With  children's  blood  thick-crusted,  are  the  same 
That  stealing  through  night's  peaceful  curtains  came 
To  throttle  blameless  Belgium ;  from  the  brands 
Of  sacked  and  burning  churches  those  dark  bands 
Befoul  her  garments,  noisome  as  her  name. 

"Guilty  of  more  than  murder!"     Not  alone 
Of  broken  hearts,  drained  eyes  and  myriad  graves 
Shall  men  make  up  the  sum  of  her  dread  score. 
But  of  faiths  blasted,  world  hopes  overthrown. 
Then  judgment  write  in  tears  of  her  bowed  slaves, 

"Earth  sickens  of  her — Let  her  be  no  more!" 

CHARLES  EDWARD  RUSSELL. 


132 


133 


Germany's" Peace"  with  Russia 

COUNT  HERTLING  asks  resentfully:  '"Who  dares  to  suggest 
that  I  am  not  on  the  side  of  justice?"  Count  llcrtling  is  un- 
doubtedly sincere.  Until  this  war  began  the  world  had  almost 
forgotten  the  record  for  duplicity  and  inhumanity  of  the  military 
tyrants  of  Prussia, — the  treachery  and  ])ar])arity  of  the  race  of  which 
he  and  they  are  the  orfsi)ring.  They  are  running  true  to  type,  ])ut  for  the 
time  we  had  forgotten  what  the  type  was;  yet  it  was  known  well  enough 
to  Julius  Cjesar  and  to  the  others  who  ruled  the  Roman  world.  I'or  him 
the  Germans  were  "that  treacherous  race  which  is  bred  up  from  the  cra- 
dle to  war  and  rapine,"  who  "i)ractise  the  base  deception  which  first  asks 
for  peace  and  then  openly  begins  war,"  who  are  "outside  the  pale  of  ne- 
gotiations"-— yet  Caesar  had  nnt  heard  of  the  treaty  of  Brest-Litovsk! 
History  is  repeating  itself  after  two  thousand  years,  yet  two  thousand 
years  ago  it  was  then  only  repeating  itself.  The  Prussian  has  always 
been  the  same.  His  instincts  are  today  as  they  were  when  he  roamed 
the  swamp  lands,  naked  and  with  a  stone  club  in  his  fist,  pig-eyed  and 
bull-necked,  like  the  mastodon  of  his  native  forests.  Raemaekers  has 
done  well  to  symbolize  him  in  his  treatment  of  helpless  Russia,  as  a 
hairy  prehistoric  beast  crushing  out  the  life  of  a  bleeding  natirm  beneath 
his  ponderous  feet.  Count  Hertling  says  he  is  on  the  side  of  justice.  He 
is — of  German  justice,  the  justice  of  which  the  Initchered  civilians  and 
outraged  girls  of  Belgitmi,  the  crucified  Canadians,  the  murdered  Edith 
Cavell,  and  the  martyred  babies  and  their  mothers  of  the  Liisifaiiia,  are 
examples.  It  is  the  justice  of  the  mammoth  and  the  cave-man,  the  sabre- 
toothed  tiger  and  the  woollv  rhinoceros, — all  of  whom  would  agree  that 
Count  Hertling  in  his  dealings  with  Russia  was  actuated  1)_\'  the  only  rec- 
ognized Prussian  ideal — the  right  of  the  strongest  brute  to  ra\ish  and  de- 
stroy. 

ARTHUR  TRAIN. 


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\ du  I  <.lxo  «?(AN  c;  f  kf  r_s 


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The  Better  Fighter 

CANADA'S  PART  IN  THE  WAR 

BOUND  by  no  cunslituUon,  bimnd  l)y  no  law,  equity  or  obligation, 
Canada  has  decided  as  a  nation  to  make  war.  We  have  levied  an 
army;  we  have  sent  the  greatest  army  to  England  that  has  ever 
crossed  the  Atlantic,  to  take  part  in  the  battles  of  England.  We  have 
placed  ourselves  in  opposition  to  great  world  powers.  W^e  are  now  train- 
ing and  equipping  an  army  greater  than  the  combined  forces  of  Welling- 
ton and  Napoleon  at  the  battle  of  Waterloo." 

Speech  of  Sir  Clifford  Siftun  at  Montreal. 


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*'~'  '     N     - 1      „  iiiiiiiiirtiTmniiiini    iii.i...i.n  /  


137 


The  Dungeon  of  Autocracy 

THERE  is  a  part  of  Germany  that  longs  fur  freedom;  Init  that  is 
not  the  Prussian  part.  The  soul  of  Germany  is  not  entirely  killed 
by  her  mortal  sins  of  money  and  land-lust ;  and  Raemaekers  here 
paints  the  remorseful  soul,  crowned  with  the  blurred  cross.  Germany 
turns  her  back  to  the  sky;  she  prefers  to  look  at  the  dark  ground  of 
her  dunt^eon  rather  than  to  face  that  light.  She  is  chained  by  her  own 
will,  and  yet  her  inmr)St  soul  revolts. 

Ect  us  not  imagine  that  there  are  two  Germanys.  Before  the  war 
the  Social  Democrat  was  the  official  hater  of  the  despotism  of  the  Hohen- 
zollerns.  The  war  came,  he  ceased  to  be  a  Social  Democrat  when  he  be- 
came a  Prussian.  Before  the  war,  the  Centrum  defended  the  rights  of 
conscience  against  the  Hegelian  dogma  of  the  absolute  supremacy  of  the 
State.  The  Kaiser  rushed  from  Norway,  war  was  declared,  and  the  re- 
calcitrant Centrum, — the  creature  of  the  indomitable  Windhorst,  whom 
even  Bismarck  could  not  terrify, — becomes  subservient!  The  Emperor 
does  not  say,  "The  State  is  L"  He  says. — '"Germany  over  all,  and  the 
German  God  must  rule." 

Germany  has  chained  herself.  For  more  than  ten  years,  I  have  lived 
geographically  in  Germany, — for  Denmark,  though  one  of  the  freest  na- 
tions of  the  world,  is  a  few  miles  from  Berlin, — and  I  have  seen  the  Old 
Germany  growing  into  the  New%  materialized  Germany.  Bismarck  helped 
this  process  with  blood  and  iron.  The  New  Germany  has  a  soul,  but  she 
has  chained  it  to  avarice  and  pride  and  power. 

MAURICE  FRANCIS  EGAN, 

American  Minister  to  Denmark. 
il/av28,  1918. 


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139 


"  Hurrah  for  Peace,  Lads  !  " 

Ex^RLY  in  ihc  war  the  great  writers  and  i)oets  of  the  Alhed  nations 
joined  in  combating,  witli  all  the  inspiration  of  the  cause  of  lib- 
erty, the  campaigns  launched  in  varied  guise  by  seditionists  here 
and  abroad.  In  this  effort  literature  has  made  a  worthy  contribution  to 
the  battle  for  civilization.  It  remained,  however,  for  the  art  and  genius 
of  Raemaekers  to  rout  the  propagandists  of  the  enemy  b}-  delineating  the 
great  basic  truths  of  war  as  waged  by  the  Huns.  It  has  been  his  w^ork, 
more  than  that  of  any  other  person,  to  delineate  the  righteousness  of  the 
Allied  cause. 

His  portraiture  is  a  protest,  an  indictment,  and  an  insi)iration.  He  de- 
stroys the  foe's  misrepresentation  and  exposes  his  mendacity  while  con- 
structively informing  the  mind  and  awakening  the  imagination.  He  en- 
ables us  to  grasp  all  the  details  of  sorrow,  of  devotion,  together  with  all 
the  splendor  of  modern  battle  behind  his  story.  He  horrifies  us  with  the 
l)rutality  of  imcivilized  warfare,  and  at  the  same  time  arouses  within  us 
the  determination  to  right  the  wrongs  of  an  outraged  world.  His  very 
shock  is  a  stimulus,  for  in  telling  us  of  the  horror  of  war,  Raemaekers 
makes  us  understand  that  to  stop  it  forever  by  victory  is  the  only  thing 
worthv  of  thinking  and  feeling  human  beings.  By  speaking  the  universal 
language  which  art  alone  possesses,  he  has  made  the  war  clear  to  those 
who  cannot  read.  Because  of  this  genius  for  arousing  our  emotions,  he 
is  the  premier  recruiting  agent  of  the  armies  of  civilization  for  and  be- 
hind the  battle-line.     He  is  truly  a  mainspring  of  our  armed  forces. 


S.  STAXWOOD  ^  I  EX  KEN, 
President  of  the  National  Security  League. 


January,  1918. 


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141 


Ecce  Homo  ! 


AN'  Thcni  art  (i^tl,  and  he  not  one 
W  ilh  the  god  of  the  bun — Behold  Thy  Son! 
(  )iily  belov'd  Ijcgottcn  Son 
And  see  with  Thine  eyes  what  tlie  hun  hatli  done. 

See  how  11  is  tender  temples  bleed! 

How  they  have  mocked  llini  in  their  scorn — 

Thrust  in  his  hands  a  withered  reed 

To  hail  Him  King — Thine  only  born — 

And  crowned  His  shrinking  brow  wilb  thorn! 

Where  must  He  pass — Lord  Christ — Thy  Son? 
Calvary  looms  in  the  \\'cst  again: — 
W'e  thought  the  sad  world  lost  and  won 
W'hen  He  died  on  the  Cross  for  the  sins  of  men. 
Must  He  die  again?     And  where?     And  when? 

Where,  in  their  hell,  the  heathen  rage, 
The  bun's  imperial  priest  appears 
Smeared  with  the  blood  of  youth  and  age 
Dragging  his  god  that  nods  and  leers 
Dripping  with  murdered  children's  tears. 

God  of  the  bright,  swift  sword,  how  long? 

Moloch  rides  with  the  swinish  hun : — 

The  boche  is  boasting  with  shout  and  song 

That  Thou  and  his  bestial  god  are  one, — 

Thou  and  Moloch  and  Christ.  Thy  Son! 

ROBERT  W\  CHAMBERS. 
Neiv  York,  April  30,  1018. 


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143 


(6 


We  Must  so  Destroy  France 
That  She  can  Never  Again 
Resist  Us 


y^ 


HEINE,  when  he  warned  the  world  that  the  real  God  of  Germany 
was  Thor  and  that  when  the  Christian  veneer  wore  off  the  old 
pagan  god  would  with  his  hammer  break  in  pieces  the  Gothic  Ca- 
thedrals, especially  warned  France,  whom  above  all  the  Beast  hated.  The 
warning  has  been  justified  by  history.  Before  the  war  I  have  heard  Ger- 
mans speak  gloatingly  of  what  they  did  to  France  in  1870,  and  of  what 
they  meant  to  do  next  time.  The  phrase  "  bleed  France  white"  had  be- 
come a  commonplace  of  German  speech. 

This  hatred  is  rather  mysterious.  England  fought  France  many  times 
during  five  hundred  years,  but  whenever  peace  was  declared  Paris  would 
be  full  of  Englishmen  to  celebrate,  to  shake  hands  and  be  friends.  There 
never  was  this  ferocious  hate,  and  France  has  always  been  generous  and 
chivalrous  and  human.  Germany  hates  Great  Britain  and  America  with 
her  head,  but  she  hates  France  with  her  soul. 

It  must  be  that  the  modern  Ilun  feels  that  there  is  something  in  his 
hated  enemy  which  he  does  not  possess  and  never  can  possess.  And  be- 
cause the  rest  of  the  world  loves  France,  he  hates  her  all  the  more,  with 
a  cold  and  cruel  and  scientific  hatred,  as  our  artist  depicts  it  in  his  terrible 
cartoon. 

Perhaps  some  light  is  thrown  on  the  problem  by  a  typical  piece  of  Gallic 
wit.  A  French  writer  commenting  on  the  wanton  destruction  of  the  Ca- 
thedral of  Rheims  declared  it  to  be  the  greatest  single  calamity  to  art 
that  was  conceivable,  and  then  added  that  there  could  be  another  greater 
calamity — to  allow  the  Germans  to  restore  it !  It  adds  fuel  to  the  flame 
to  know  that  the  only  great  period  of  German  literature — the  period  of 
Heine  himself — was  when  it  was  under  the  complete  influence  and  inspi- 
ration of  France. 

In  a  true  sense  the  whole  civilized  world  is  fighting  for  France,  to  de- 
cide whether  it  is  to  lose  all  that  France  stands  for,  or  whether  the  fu- 
ture is  to  be  dominated  by  the  ugly  bestial  force,  without  conscience  and 
without  heart,  which  Germany  represents.  The  world  knows  that  if  it 
is  a  case  of  alternatives,  civilization  can  do  without  Germany,  but  would 
be  eternally  poor  without  la  belle  France. 

HUGH  BLACK. 

144 


145 


The  Japanese  Mouse 


a 


Can  the  Japanese  mouse  free  the  Russian  bear 
from  the  German  netting?'''' 

"  ¥  APAN  must  act  on  the  broad  principle  that  she  is  the  guardian  of 
I  peace  in  the  Far  East,  and  I  am  sure  that  to  fulfil  her  duty  she  will 
^"^  utilize  every  resource  at  her  disposal.  Her  part,  instead  of  attempt- 
ing the  impossible,  will  be  to  stand  on  safe  and  reasonable  ground. 
Through  her  control  of  the  Southern  Manchuria  Railroad  she  is  in  a  posi- 
tion to  cut  off  communication  between  Harbin  and  Vladivostok  now  af- 
forded by  the  trans-Siberian  line.  Harbin  is  the  military,  economic,  and 
political  base  of  Russia  in  the  Far  East.  That  means  that  the  Russian 
possessions  in  East  Siberia  would  be  protected  by  Japan  from  German 
domination  or  aggression.  Let  me  say,  however,  that  any  suggestion 
that  Japan  intends  to  seize  these  Russian  possessions  is  monstrous.  Ja- 
pan would  offer  protection  and  assistance,  but  that  is  all." 

— Dr.  T.  lyenaga,  in  the  New  York  "Tribune." 


146 


147 


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Ueber  A  lies"  and  Underneath 


148 


149 


Expostulation  and  Reply 


'"¥     T      fE  cannot  take  the  word  of  the  present  rulers  of  Germany  as  a  j 

\ /\  /     guarantee  of  anything  that  is  to  endure,  unless  explicitly  sup- 
ported  hy  such  conclusive  evidence  of  the  will  and  purpose 
of  the  German  people  themselves  as  the  other  peoples  of  the  world  would  \ 

be  justified  in  accepting."  ! 

— From  President   Wilson's  Reply  to  the  Pope,  August  27, 
1917. 


150 


161 


The  Second  Election 

Bernstorff:     ''  We  have  defeated  Wilson! 
Wilson:     ' '  Wait  a  moment! 


>  > 


152 


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153 


The  Mad  Shepherd 


THE  GERMAN  SUBSTITUTE  FOR  THE  TWENTY-THIRD  PSALM 

TliE  Kaiser's  our  shepherd,  we  shall  not  rest. 
He  niaketh  us  to  desecrate  green  pastures ;  he  forceth  us  to  kill  ' 

in  still  waters. 
He  claimeth  our  soul,  he  leadeth  us  in  the  paths  of  {rightfulness  for  his  ' 

name's  sake.  i 

Yea,  though  Ik-  plunge  us  into  the  valley  of  death,  we  must  call  him  i 

not  evil,  for  he  is  our  master,  his  rod  and  his  staff  they  drive  us. 

Surely  horror  and  evil  shall  follow  us  all  the  days  of  our  life  till  we 
flee  from  his  rule  forever. 

ALICE  HEGAN  RICE. 
March  16,  1918.  ' 


154 


155 


"  Sink  Without  a  Trace  " 

To  his  dark  miiiiuns  undersea 
Flashed  the  imperial  decree: 
Sink  Everythini;! 
Spare  naught!     Sink  everything  that  iloats: 
Merchantmen,  liners,  fishing  boats ; 
Sink  ships  on  Mercy's  errand  sped. 
Dye  Christ's  red  cross  a  deeper  red: 
Sink  Everything 


'to  ' 


Sink  honor,  faith,  forbearance,  ruth: 
Sink  virtue,  chivalry,  and  truth. 

Sink  Everything! 
Sink  everything  that  men  hold  dear, 
That  devils  hate,  that  cowards  fear, 
All  that  lifts  Man  above  the  ape. 
That  marks  him  cast  in  God's  own  shape : 

Sink  Everything! 

OLIVER  HERFORD. 


156 


157 


Changing  the  Guard 

WITH  the  entrance  of  the  United  States  into  the  Great  War, 
we  Americans  laid  aside  forever  our  spiritual  isolation.  We 
accepted  our  share  of  responsibility  for  the  assaulted  civiliza- 
tion of  the  world,  and  our  share  of  danger  at  the  hands  of 
its  great  assailant.  A  free  people,  we  willingly  chose  the  path  of  utter- 
most pain,  and  we  chose  it  for  the  sake  of  our  nation's  honor,  our  na- 
tion's ultimate  safety,  and  the  salvation  of  our  nation's  soul. 

When  Germany  denied  us  the  waterways  of  the  world,  she  struck  hard 
at  our  commerce,  at  our  just  rights,  and  at  our  decent  pride.  What  were 
the  Hohenzollerns  to  us  that  we  should  have  taken  our  orders  from  the 
Kaiser,  tied  up  our  ships  in  harbor  at  his  behest,  and,  cowering  by  our  own 
firesides,  have  waited  for  his  permission  to  carry  our  flag  across  the  sea? 
Was  it  for  this  that  our  forefathers  had  bought  our  freedom  with  their 
lives  ?  Had  we  revolted  when  we  were  colonists,  weak,  poor,  and  without 
resources,  from  the  tyranny  of  Great  Britain  (a  stupid  but  never  a  brutal 
tyranny),  onlv  to  bow  the  strength  of  our  manhood  before  Germany's 
shameful  threats?  Had  we  preached  the  sacredness  of  human  rights  for 
over  a  hundred  years,  only  to  acquiesce  in  Germany's  campaign  of  mur- 
der; and,  by  consenting  to  her  crimes,  become  a  partner  of  her  guilt? 
We  had  suffered  cruel  injury  at  her  hands.  Were  we  also  to  lose  our 
souls  through  ignoble  submission  to  wrong-doing? 

Our  answer  was  given  when  President  Wilson  asked  Congress  to  de- 
clare a  state  of  war.  We  had  then,  and  we  ha\'e  now,  no  choice  but  to 
fight  for  our  liberty,  or  to  lose  it.  Our  ships  had  been  sunk,  our  seamen 
drowned.  Treacherous  officials  had  plotted  to  embroil  us  with  friendly 
nations.  Treacherous  hands  had  fired  our  factories  and  murdered  our 
citizens.  The  careless  lie  or  the  insolent  taunt  which  were  Germany's  al- 
ternate answers  to  our  remonstrances,  and  which  she  seemed  to  think 
would  keep  us  quiet  until  she  had  leisure  to  turn  her  arms  upon  us,  are 
silenced  now.  \\t  are  upholding  the  safety  and  decency  of  the  world, 
which  has  been  as  deeply  degraded  by  vandalism  as  when  Attila  swept  his 
hordes  across  the  ravaged  face  of  Europe.  Our  young  soldiers  are  chang- 
ing guard  with  the  war-worn  veterans  of  France  and  Great  Britain. 
Valiant  and  gay,  they  face  the  oppressor.  "He  that  loveth  his  life 
shall  lose  it";  and  these  men  stand  ready  to  lay  down  their  lives  for  all 
they  hold  sacred  and  dear.  Faithful  to  their  country,  faithful  to  their 
allies,  faithful  to  the  freedom  in  which  they  were  reared,  they  strike  their 
blow  in  the  great  name  of  America,  and  for  the  peace  of  God. 

AGNES  REPPLIER. 
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The  Penitent  Artist 

'V  wi/I  never  make  drawings  against  the  Yellow 
Peril  again  I ' ' 

THE  Kaiser  has  a  good  many  things  in  his  past  to  Hve  down,  but  he 
certainly  never  foresaw  that  some  day  his  inept  activities  as  an 
artist  would  stand  across  his  path.  Raemaekers,  who  was  not 
likelv  to  forget  anvthing  that  Wilhelni  had  done  in  this  particular  line, 
shows  him  on  his  knees  to  Japan  (and  incidentally  to  Mexico),  as  the  in- 
famous Zimmermann  note  to  the  German  minister  at  Mexico  City  re- 
vealed him,  full  of  remorse  for  those  drawings  he  once  made  against  the 
Yellow  Peril.  And  \\hat  is  Japan's  reply?  The  expression  which  Rae- 
maekers has  caught  certainly  agrees  very  well  with  the  following  state- 
ment of  Count  Terauchi,  Japanese  Prime  Minister:  "Nothing  is  more 
repugnant  to  our  sense  of  honor  and  to  the  lasting  welfare  of  this  coun- 
try than  to  betray  our  friends  and  allies  in  time  of  trial  and  to  become 
a  party  to  a  combination  directed  against  the  United  States,  to  whom  we 
are  bound  not  only  b\-  the  sentiments  of  true  friendship  but  also  by  ma- 
terial interests  of  A-ast  and  far-reaching  importance." 


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Peace  Angels  of  Doubtful  Purity 

William:     '"''Go,  my  doves;  your  charms  may 
prove  more  fatal  than  my  armies. 


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The  Black  Flag 

Germany  Sinks  British  Hospital  Ships 

THE  British  Admiralty  issued  a  statement  on  April  23  [1917],  an- 
nouncing the  sinking  of  the  two  hospital  steamships  Donegal  and 
Laiifranc  without  warning  by  sulmiarines;  nineteen  British  and 
fifteen  wounded  German  officers  were  drowned.  In  their  statement  the 
British  authorities  denied  the  German  charge  that  hospital  ships  were 
employed  to  transport  troops  and  military  supplies.  .  .  .  Germany  was  no- 
tified that,  if  her  course  was  persisted  in,  reprisals  would  follow,  yet  the 
British  hospital  ship  .-istiirias  was  torpedoed  without  warning  on  the  night 
of  March  20.  The  ship  was  steaming  witli  all  navigation  lights  burning 
and  the  proper  Red  Cross  signs  brilliantly  illuminated.  ...  On  the  night 
of  March  30-31  the  hospital  ship  Gloucester  Castle  met  with  a  similar 
fate.  On  this  occasion  the  Berlin  official  wireless  message  again  pub- 
lished a  notification  that  she  was  torpedoed  by  a  U-boat,  thus  removing 
any  possible  doubt  in  the  matter. 

— The  Neiv  York  Times  Citrrent  History. 


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The  Annexation  of  America 

"/  thinks  All  Highest,  we  had  better  not  insist 
upon  the  annexation  of  America,'" 

IN  the  inscription  "Ten  Million  Men  Between  21  and  30"  on  the  Statue 
of  Liberty,  Raemaekers  has  as  usual  gone  to  the  heart  of  things.  Ten 
million  trained  citizen  soldiers!!!  What  an  insurance  of  peace  and 
security  against  attack  or  insult.  Universal  Citizen  Military  Education 
and  Training. 

From  the  beginning  the  lirst  article  in  our  International  Creed  has  been 
ihe  Monroe  Doctrine — America  for  Americans.  If  the  result  of  the 
present  war  shall  be  to  add  two  additional  items  to  that  creed,  namely, 
Universal  Military  Education  and  Training,  and  the  United  States,  the 
First  Air  Power  in  the  world,  it  will  be  worth  all  that  it  costs,  and  this 
great  nation  can  go  on  in  peace  and  security  to  work  out  the  mighty  des- 
tiny awaiting  it. 

Raemaekers'  placing  "All  Highest"  and  his  aide  upon  the  conning  tower 
of  a  submarine,  suggests  another  most  vital  matter  at  this  present  time. 

The  submarine  has  held  the  world's  spotlight  for  the  last  two  years. 
Its  deadly  efficiency  is  universally  conceded.  That  deadly  efficiency  is  the 
direct  result  of  Admiral  von  Tirpitz's  unyielding  insistence  on  a  central- 
ized, independent,  untrammeled  Department  for  the  submarine. 

\Vc  must  adopt  the  same  methods  if  zve  expect  to  attain  equally  deadly 
efficiency  in  tlic  air. 

But  the  possibilities  of  the  aeroplane  are  greater  than  those  of  the  sub- 
marine. The  aeroplane  is  capable  of  offensive  in  the  air  against  aero- 
planes or  dirigibles,  on  the  surface  of  the  sea  against  ships,  and  under  the 
sea  against  submarines.  The  offensive  capabilities  of  the  submarine  can 
and  soon  will  be  restricted  to  undei'-surface  activities. 

Again,  the  submarine  is  limited  to  the  oceans.  The  aeroplane  is  limited 
by  nothing.  It  can  go  wherever  there  is  air,  and  that  means  everywhere. 
In  other  words,  the  aeroplane  is  the  master  of  the  submarine. 

If  we  today  had  a  thousand  swift,  heavily  armed  seaplanes  continuously 
patrolling  the  water  within  a  radius  of  three  hundred  miles  of  Sandy  Hook 
(from  Portland,  Maine,  to  Norfolk,  Virginia),  we  should  have  our  five 
Atlantic  sea  gateways  well  guarded,  and  could  feel  secure  against  any 
further  serious  damage  from  these  pests. 

Thus  equipped,  submarine  raids  upon  our  coast  would  be  an  impossibil- 
ity; and  even  the  imagination  of  a  Raemaekers  would  not  dare  to  conceive 
of  a  hostile  submarine  within  sight  of  the  Statue  of  Liberty. 

PEARY. 
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Welcome,  Mate;  You're  Just 

in  Time!" 


I  AM  in  the  happy  position  of  being,  I  think,  the  first  British  Minis- 
ter of  the  Crown  who,  speaking  on  behalf  of  the  people  of  this 
country,  can  salute  the  American  Nation  as  comrades  in  arms.  I 
am  glad;  I  am  proud.  I  am  glad  not  merely  because  of  the  stupendous 
resources  which  this  great  nation  will  bring  to  the  succor  of  the  alliance, 
but  I  rejoice  as  a  democrat  that  the  advent  of  the  United  States  into  this 
war  gives  the  final  stamp  and  seal  to  the  character  of  the  conflict  as  a 
struggle  against  military  autocracy  throughout  the  world." 

— From  the  Speech  of  the  Rt.  Hon.  David  Lloyd-George  at 
the  American  Club  in  London,  April  12,  1917. 


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The  Editor: 

''''Use  always  the  American  flag  and  commit  as 
much  high  treason  as  you  like. 


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4  i^  H  7  ()E  to  the  German-American,  so-called,  who,  in  this  sacred  war 
for  a  canse  as  high  as  any  for  which  ever  people  took  up 
arms,  does  not  feel  a  solemn  urge,  does  not  show  an  eager 
deternn'nation  to  be  in  the  very  fore-front  of  the  struggle;  does  not  prove 
a  patriotic  jealousy,  in  thought,  in  action  and  in  speech  to  rival  and  to 
outdo  his  native-born  fellow  citizen  in  devotion  and  in  willing  sacrifice  for 
the  country  of  his  choice  and  adoption  and  sworn  allegiance,  and  of  their 
common  affection  and  pride.  As  Washington  led  Americans  of  British 
blood  to  fight  against  Great  Britain,  as  Lincoln  called  upon  Americans  of 
the  North  to  fight  their  very  brothers  of  the  South,  so  Americans  of  Ger- 
man descent  are  now  summoned  to  join  in  our  country's  righteous  strug- 
gle against  a  people  of  their  own  blood,  which,  under  the  evil  spell  of  a 
dreadful  obsession,  and.  Heaven  knows!  through  no  fault  of  ours,  has 
made  itself  the  enemy  of  peace  and  right  and  freedom  throughout  the 
world." 

—From  Offo  H.  Kahn's  "Right  Above  Race." 


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German  Intrigues  in  Mexico 


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ANY  things  in  the  present  war  have  aroused  and  enraged  the  peo- 
l)Ie  of  the  United  States  against  Germany.  The  defilement  of 
lielgium,  the  ravage  of  Serbia,  the  assassination  of  Armenia, 
all  crimes  against  human  nature  in  which  we  Americans  share.  Be- 
sides that,  some  revelations  apply  especially  to  us, — grievances,  inju- 
ries and  outrages,  things  that  seem  so  far  removed  from  the  secret 
thoughts  of  decent  and  self-respecting  nations  that  we  hesitated  to  believe 
them.  We  must  believe  them  now  fur  we  know  at  last  that  Germany 
has  for  not  less  than  twenty  years  been  working  against  the  inlluence  and 
good  name  of  the  United  States.  It  was  not  for  nothing  that  one  of  our 
best-kn(»\\n  public  men,  when  he  visited  Germany  as  far  back  as  1011, 
said  that  it  was  a  country  where  he  felt  that  "every  man,  woman  and 
child  looked  upon  him  with  hatred,"  because  he  was  conspicuous  in  this 
country  which  had  become  rich  and  powerful  and  prosperous  by  the  road 
of  democracy  instead  of  by  the  German  path  of  militarism. 

Every  day  reveals  some  new  evidence  that  the  German  mole  \\as  work- 
ing in  South  America,  in  Central  America,  in  almost  every  American 
state  and  city,  to  prepare  the  minds  of  those  who  were  to  take  part  in 
the  infamous  conspiracy.  Before  the  war  broke  out  in  Europe,  Ger- 
mans were  trying  to  organize  an  active  cohort  within  our  boundary. 
The  effort  to  arouse  Mexico  against  us  while  we  were  still  neutral,  is  no 
worse  than  other  German  dijjlomacy  such  as  the  "spurlos  versenkt"  radio- 
grams of  the  scoundrel  Luxburg,  directed  against  the  Argentine;  but  the 
ap])eal  to  Mexico  to  "reconquer"  Texas  and  the  Southwest  was  worse 
than  a  crime,  it  was  a  blunder,  especially  resented  b\-  the  people  of  that 
part  of  the  country.  Nothing  l)ut  an  absolute  breach  with  Germanv  has 
made  possible  the  revelation  of  the  cynical  violation  of  diplomatic  priv- 
ileges by  German  and  lAustrian  officials  in  this  country  from  titled  Am- 
bassadors down  through  consuls-general  and  consuls-particular  and  mili- 
tary aides  and  secretaries  and  clerks  and  hangers-on  and  spies  and  jack- 
als, all  uniting  to  stab  the  land  which  gave  them  hospitality.  Whatever 
else  may  happen,  a  hundred  years  will  not  efface  from  the  minds  of  the 
people  of  the  United  States  the  belief  that  "Germany  cannot  be  a  Gen- 
tleman." 

ALBERT  BUSHNELL  HART. 

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German  ''Militarist "  Socialism 

DOES  not  the  cartfjonist  Ivaemaekcrs  fail  in  tliis  cartoon?  The 
artist  Raemaekcrs  is  inspired— here  as  always.  Jlut  does  the 
cartoonist  succeed  this  time  in  burning  the  right  idea,  his  idea, 
into  the  reader's  brain? 

Here  is  the  real  Kaiser  and  here  are  real  German  workingmcn.  It  is 
they  who  are  carrying  the  burden  of  Kaiserism.  All  this  is  ccjnvincing. 
But  do  not  other  workingmen  in  other  countries  carry  burdens? 

The  failure  is  only  at  first  glance.  Raemakers  is  not  concerned  to  re- 
jirfxluce  the  conventional  cartoon  of  workingmen  carrying  a  burden  of 
otlier  classes  on  their  shoulders.  The  point  lies  not  in  the  burden,  but  in 
the  nature  of  the  burden,  the  contrast,  so  perfectly  portrayed,  l)etvveen  the 
character  of  the  Kaiser  and  the  characters  of  his  proud  and  willing  slaves. 
The  Kaiser,  crafty  and  contemptuous,  but  neither  so  ignorant  nor  so  stupid 
as  to  be  wholly  unconscious  of  the  foolish  and  contemptible  position  he  oc- 
cupies! The  workingmen  evidently  once  strong,  intelligent  and  enthusi- 
astic, though  now  blinded  and  crippled,  are  utterly  unconscious  of  what 
thev  are  doing.  Carrying  the  heavy  burden  of  Kaiserism  seems  no  uKjre 
to  them  than  their  day's  work. 

You  see  Raemackers  knozvs  both  Kaiser  and  workingmen,  and  so  will 
have  nothing  to  do  with  the  conventional  portraits  of  either.  The  Kaiser 
is  neither  a  beast  nor  a  fool — however  foolish  his  position  may  be.  The 
workinonien  are  neither  labor  heroes  readv  to  revolt,  nor  conscious  and 
beaten  serfs. 

So  much  for  the  picture — at  second  glance.  It  leads  to  an  endless  chain 
of  reflections.  But  the  first  and  most  obvious  is  on  the  sort  of  burden 
these  men  are  carrying.  Here  is  an  accepted  ruler  who  is  allowed  to 
monopolize  the  force  of  the  nation,  as  the  cartoon  clearly  indicates.  This 
of  itself  gives  him  an  absolute  and  unlimited  power  over  his  workers. 
The  only  possible  alternative  use  of  that  force  is  to  make  slaves  of  the 
workers  of  other  nations.  The  German  workingmen,  it  is  suggested, 
lend  themselves  blindly  to  this  work  of  ensla\'ement  also — naturally,  for 
it  is  no  different  for  their  Kaiser  to  rule  by  force  and  lies  over  non- 
Germans  than  to  rule  by  force  and  lies  over  Germans.  The  face  of  the 
Kaiser  shows  a  subconscious  realization  of  these  lies.  The  workers  sh(iw 
utter  unconsciousness.  The  rule  of  autocracy  over  themselves  and  the 
extension  of  that  autocracy  over  others  by  means  of  their  blood  is  to  them 
as  much  a  part  of  nature  as  the  motions  of  sun  and  moon  or  the  rise  and 
fall  of  the  tides ! 

Indeed,  the  workingmen  are  clearly  proud  of  their  burden  and  his  suc- 
cesses and  undoubtedly  feel  that  any  people  is  blest  to  be  brought  under 
his  benign  rule.  And  here  is  the  moral  of  the  tale.  It  is  the  Kaiser's 
successes  that  have  so  utterly  blinded  his  serfs.  Then  there  is  one  rem- 
edy and  only  one.     We  need  hardly  say  what  that  remed}-  is. 

WTLLIAAI  ENGLISH  WALLING. 
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The  Old  Hammer  and  the  New 

President  Wilson  elected  for  a  second  term. 


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The  Spirit  of  Washington 

Preside/It  Wi/sofi's  answer  to  He  ft li Jig. 

^^  T  /'( )ODRO\\'  \\ILSON  is  in  no  sense  a  herald.  The  revolution 
\  /  \l  of  l^etrayed  ideaHsm  has  been  in  progress  for  more  than  a 
century,  and  in  the  last  decade  particularly  there  has  been 
steady  assault  upon  e\il  and  outworn  institutions.  These  passionate  gro])- 
ings  of  the  spirit  in  the  direction  of  ideals  professed  and  not  practised 
have  nierclv  lacked  great  leadership  and  authoritative  expression.  This 
is  what  W'oodrow  Wilson  gives.  He  comes  as  a  leader,  as  a  nucleating 
force,  as  a  clear,  rallying  cry  to  the  almost  mystic  passions  that  are  pe- 
culiarlv  the  dominant  note  of  the  day.  He  fits  the  need  of  the  bloodless 
revolution  as  skin  fits  the  hand,  bringing  purpose  and  courage  to  the 
struggle  for  nobler  fulfilment  of  the  hopes  and  aspirations  that  thrilled 
those  who  first  sought  refuge  in  the  New  World  from  the  oppressions 
of  the  Old — the  struggle  for  real  democracy." 

— From  George  Creel's  "IJllsoii   and  the  Issues." 


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The  Massacre  of  the  Innocents 

[The  following  lines  are  dated  July,  1916.  "As  it  stands,"  writes  Mr.  llowells,  "the 
poem  ignores  the  glorious  retrieval  of  our  former  sufiferance.  It  might  better  now  be 
called  A  Slianie  Lived  Down."— Ei).] 

The  American  People 

WIIAT  was  it  kept  you  so  long-,  brave  German  submersible? 
W'c  have  been  \ery  anxious  lest  matters  had  not  gone  well 
With  you  and  the  precious  cargo  of  your  country's  drugs  and 
dyes. 
But  here  you  are  at  last,  and  the  sight  is  good  for  our  eyes, 
Glad  to  welcome  you  up  and  out  of  the  ca\es  of  the  sea, 
And  ready  for  sale  or  barter,  whatever  your  will  may  be. 

The  Captain  of  the  Submersible 

Oh,  do  not  be  impatient,  good  friends  of  this  neutral  land. 

That  we  have  been  so  tardy  in  reaching  your  eager  strand. 

We  were  stopped  by  a  curious  chance  just  off  the  Irish  coast, 

^^'here  the  mightiest  wreck  ever  was  lay  crowded  w'ith  a  host 

Of  the  dead  that  went  down  with  her;  and  some  prayed  us  to  bring  them 

here 
That  they  might  be  at  home  with  their  brothers  and  sisters  dear. 
We  Germans  have  tender  hearts,  and  it  grie\'ed  us  sore  to  say 
We  were  not  a  passenger  ship,  and  to  most  we  must  answer  nay, 
But  if  from  among  their  hundreds  they  could  somehow  a  half-score  choose 
^^'e  thought  we  could  manage  to  bring  them,  and  we  would  not  refuse. 
They  chose,  and  the  women  and  children  that  are  greeting  you  here  are 

those 
Ghosts  of  the  women  and  children  that  the  rest  of  the  hundred  chose. 

The  American  People 

What  guff  are  you  giving  us.  Captain?     We  are  able  to  tell,  we  hope, 

A  dozen  ghosts,  when  we  see  them,  apart  from  a  periscope. 

Come,  come,  get  down  to  business !     For  time  is  money,  you  knows 

And  you  must  make  up  in  both  to  lis  for  having  been  so  slow. 

Better  tell  this  story  of  yours  to  the  submarines,  for  we 

Know  there  was  no  such  wreck,  and  none  of  your  spookery. 

The  Ghosts  of  the  Lusitania  Women  and  Children 

Oh,  kind  kin  of  our  murderers,  take  us  back  when  you  sail  away ; 
Our  own  kin  have  forgotten  us.     O,  Captain,  do  not  stay! 
But  hasten.  Captain,  hasten !     The  wreck  that  lies  under  the  sea 
Shall  be  ever  the  home  for  us  this  land  can  never  be. 

,  ,      ioir  WILLI AAl  DEAN  HOWELLS. 

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In  the  Ring  to  Stay 

IT  is  Ambassador  Gerard's  opinion  that  when  the  German  j^overnmcnt 
issued  its  final  insult  to  the  United  States,  all  the  Kaiser's  advisers 
were  convinced  thai  no  ])rovocation  would  make  the  American  people 
lif^ht.  President  Wilson,  they  argued,  had  just  been  re-elected  on  a 
l)eace  platform.  They  counted,  it  was  evident,  upon  the  influence  of  the 
millions  of  German-Americans  to  frustrate  hostilities,  and  Herr  Zim- 
mermann  of  the  Foreign  Ofilce  openly  threatened  the  revolt  of  500,000 
German  reservists  in  America  if  the  United  States  dared  "to  do  anything 
against  Germany."  The  Western  Stales  were  reported  to  be  inditlerent  to 
the  technicalities  of  the  submarine  dispute.  The  East  was  described  as  in- 
terested in  the  submarine  sinkings  only  because  they  interfered  with  the 
traffic  in  munitions  and  the  prolits  therefrom.  The  whole  country  was 
supposedly  averse  to  war,  unwilling  to  enter  into  European  entanglements, 
and  devoted  solely  to  peaceful  industry  and  money-grubbing. 

Yet  within  a  year  afterwards,  America  had  accepted  conscription  and 
raised  an  armed  force  of  two  million  men.  It  had  contributed  billions  of 
dollars  to  the  war  through  government  loans  that  were  more  popularly 
subscribed  than  even  the  German  or  (he  English  loans.  Go\ernmcnt  con- 
trol had  been  accepted  without  question  in  every  sort  of  private  activity. 
Food  regulations,  fuel  regulations,  the  regulation  of  industry,  shipping, 
labor  and  transportation,  voluntary  censorship  of  the  press,  military  cen- 
sor.ship  of  the  cables  and  the  telegraph  and  the  mails,  prohibition  of  dis- 
tilling, the  enforcement  of  price-fixing,  the  curtailment  of  profits  and  the 
levying  of  confiscatory  taxes  had  all  been  submitted  to  without  a  murmur. 
It  had  come  to  be  a  byword  in  Washington  that  "the  people  could  not  be 
asked  to  do  enough";  that  the  fund  of  patriotism  was  so  great  it  was  diffi- 
cult to  find  channels  for  it;  that  no  war  in  the  history  of  the  nation  had 
ever  been  supported  so  unanimously. 

What  explanation  is  there  for  the  miracle  of  that  change?  Washing- 
ton believes  that  it  is  chiefly  due  to  one  man.  It  believes  that  President 
W^ilson,  by  his  patient  eft'orts  to  maintain  peace,  convinced  the  whole  nation 
of  the  impossibility  of  avoiding  war  before  he  gave  voice  to  that  convic- 
tion. It  realizes  that,  even  then,  a  great  mass  of  the  people  were  loyal 
but  unenthusiastic,  until  he  outlined  the  country's  war  aims  in  his  famous 
messages,  and  at  once  lifted  the  conflict  to  a  higher  level  of  purpose  and 
gathered  to  his  fervent  support  every  sentiment  and  hope  of  democracy  in 
the  land. 

Washington  is  now  convinced  that  the  war  can  have  but  one  issue. 
There  is  no  question  of  the  outcome.  The  leaders  of  the  nation  are  aware 
that  the  United  States  is  "in  the  ring  to  stay."  As  the  Secretary  of  War 
has  said:  "The  American  people  were  slow  to  rouse  to  this  war.  They 
will  be  as  slow  to  cool.  They  wished  peace.  They  still  wish  it.  But 
they  have  learned  that  there  is  but  one  way  to  obtain  peace,  and  they  pro- 
pose to  obtain  it  that  way.  They  know  what  they  are  fighting  for,  and 
they  will  fight  till  they  achieve  it." 

HARVEY  O'HIGGINS. 
182 


s  r\of"r'->n'^rf  r s. 


183 


We  Attacked  the  'Fortress  of 

London'" 


184 


185 


Not  a  Bad  Start ! 

CAN  a  l\fi)ul)lic  ri,<;ln  a  successful  war?  Can  a  i)cople  with  a  cen- 
tury and  a  quarter  of  free  thought,  free  speech  and  free  press 
change  suddenly  from  words  to  deeds?  Can  custom  and  tradi- 
tion yield  gracefully  to  necessity?  Is  the  heart  and  brain  of  the 
Republic  so  ini])ressed  with  the  magnitude  and  importance  of  this  war  as 
to  induce  it  to  forget  the  things  which  are  past  and  to  press  forward  to 
the  things  which  are  needful? 

The  Imperial  German  Staff  thought  not.  It  imagined  that  a  i)eople, 
whose  daily  sport  was  carping  criticism  of  their  ]niblic  officials,  whose 
army  was  hardly  as  large  as  a  policeman's  squad,  whose  sentiments  were 
all  for  peace  and  arbitration,  whose  ordnance  was  archaic  and  whose  only 
o-as-bombs  were  perfervid  oratory  could  never  right-about-face  and  set 
themselves  to  engage  in  the  horrific  warfare  desolating  the  fields  of  Eu- 
rope. 

The  mistake  in  this  German  opinion  sprang  from  a  misconception  of 
what  liberty  really  means  and  of  the  things  for  which  freedom  really 
stands.  Its  assumption  was  that  there  could  be  no  courage  with  kindli- 
ness nor  strength  with  flexibility.  To  the  slow-going  mind  of  the  method- 
ical German  his  mistaken  view  is  beginning  to  appear.  His  first  jolt  came 
when  the  traditions  of  a  century  and  a  quarter  with  reference  to  mili- 
tary service  were,  without  riot,  tumult  or  disorder,  set  aside  and  10,000,000 
young  men  of  America,  without  murmur,  submitted  themselves  to  con- 
scriiniiin.  He  was  further  prodded  when  he  learned  that,  as  each  suc- 
cessive libertv  loan  was  presented  to  the  people  of  America  it  was 
promptly  taken,  and  what  is  more  important,  taken  by  larger  and  larger 
numbers  of  citizens. 

No  wonder  Uncle  Sam  and  the  world  think  it  no  bad  start  that  we  have 
made.  Like  all  reforms,  it  has  been  accompanied  by  lapses,  by  weaknesses, 
by  mistakes  of  judgment.  l)Ut  through  it  all  there  has  run  the  golden  thread 
of  a  cohesive,  coherent  and  indomitable  American  public  opinion  that  this 
countrv,  having  set  itself  to  the  task  of  assisting  the  Allies  in  forever  free- 
ing the  world  from  the  menace  of  German  military  power,  will  never  turn 
back  in  the  breaking  of  a  single  furrow  until  the  blood-guiltiness  of  the 
German  race  shall  be  put  underneath  the  sod  and  the  world  shall  be  planted 
with  the  asphodels  of  a  permanent  peace. 

Uncle  Sam  still  smiles  confidently,  knowing  full  well  that  every  day  is 
rectifying  mistakes  and  that  every  day  is  adding  to  the  bull-dog  tenacity 
of  a  people,  who  are  willing  to  defend  to  the  uttermost  the  principles  for 
which  they  stand  against  invasion  from  wathout  and  sedition  from  within. 

THOS.  R.  MARSHALL, 

Vice-President  of  the  United  States. 


186 


187 


An  Echo  of  the  Luxberg  Case 

The  Junkers:  "These  Lansing  disclosures  are  bad.  We  don't  know 
how  to  counteract  them  because  we  don't  know  how  much  more  evidence 
he  has  got." 


188 


189 


German  Chivalry  to  Wounded 

Officers 

TIIEY  do  these  things  dilTercutl)'  in  I'Vance.  While  in  France  in 
May  and  June,  I  saw  many  squads  oi  German  prisoners  working 
at  the  railroad  stations,  on  the  roads  and  in  the  factories.  Of  the 
several  thousands  1  saw,  not  one  looked  underfed,  ill  clothed  or  abused. 
While  their  ])arracks  did  not  ha\c  steam  heat,  electricity  and  all  the  com- 
forts of  home,  the  l)oard  and  Iodising-  they  received  compared  favorably 
with  that  of  the  average  French  sf)ldiers,  and  the  franc  a  day  thrown  in 
as  wages  could  all  go  for  extras  if  desired.  I  was  told  that  they  all  pre- 
ferred to  be  prisoners  in  France  rather  than  to  return  to  the  "freedom"  of 
Germany  while  the  war  lasts. 

Once  I  obtained  ])ermission  to  question  a  gang  of  Prussians  working 
in  P'rance  on  an  American  road  under  a  British  guard.  This  is  what 
thev  said  to  me:  "We  believe  America  intends  to  conquer  France.  Cer- 
tainly you  will  never  leave  this  country  after  having  spent  so  much  money 
on  docks  and  wharves  and  warehouses  and  railroads." 

Evidentlv  the  common  German  mind  cannot  conceive  of  a  people  going 
to  another's  territory  and  spending  money  there  unless  with  some  sinis- 
ter, ulterior,  selfish,  political  motive  behind  it. 

As  Irving  Col)b  says,  we  must  extract  the  mania  from  Germania. 

HAMILTON  HOLT. 


190 


191 


Socialism  in  Germany 

IT  is  one  (i£  tlic  tr;ii;cclic,s  of  history  thai  th<*  great  Social  Democracy 
of  Germany,  in  which  lil)cral  thinkers  oi  ail  lands  reposed  so  much 
faith,  proved,  when  the  testing  time  came,  to  he  utterly  devoid  of  in- 
tellectual and  moral  integrity,  a  hase  hetrayer  of  interna  al  Socialist 
ideals  and  a  sujjservient  tool  of  Prussian  autocracy. 

The  great  majority  of  the  German  Socialists,  led  hy  such  men  as 
Scheidemann,  Sudekum,  David  and  l.egien,  u])hcld  the  Imperial  (ierman 
Government  and  thus  hccame  the  accomplices  of  the  assassins  of  Potsdam. 
These  so-called  "Socialists"  even  stooped  so  low  as  to  attempt  to  brihe 
the  Socialists  of  other  countries  in  the  interests  of  the  Kaiser  and  his 
cowardly  crew.  In  Italy  and  in  Russia  in  particular,  and  in  other  coun- 
tries less  effectively,  they  used  their  Socialist  connections  to  assist  the 
military  schemes  of  Germany,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  these  were 
designed  to  destroy  every  essential  Socialist  principle. 

Ilerr  r)a\i(l,  perhaps  the  ablest  of  the  leaders  of  the  INIajority  Social- 
ists, declared  in  the  Reichstag  that  "The  German  armies  must  continue  to 
fight  vigorously  ivliilst  flic  German  Socialists  encourage  and  stimulate  pa- 
citlsm  ainoug  Germany's  enemies."  The  whole  policy  of  the  Majority  So- 
cialists has  been  based  upon  that  sinister  principle. 

The  small  and  uninfluential  I)ut  heroic  minority,  led  by  Karl  Lieb- 
knecht,  Rosa  Luxemburg  and  George  Ledebour  alone  have  exemplified 
the  ideals  of  Socialism.  They  deserve  our  lasting  honor  as  fully  as  the 
others  deserve  our  lasting  contemi)t. 

Socialism  is  not  dead  in  Germany:  only  the  great  political  party  of 
Socialism  is  shattered.  In  the  hearts  of  the  brave  men  and  women  of 
the  Minority  Socialists  the  sacred  flame  still  Innms.  In  that  lies  the  only 
hope  for  German  Socialism. 

History  will  record  this  bitter  judgment  of  the  German  Social  De- 
mocracy: It  was  an  active  partner  in  the  crimes  of  the  Hohenzollern 
dynasty  against  civilization ;  it  infamously  betrayed  the  Russian  Revolu- 
tion and  prostituted  itself  to  the  most  malefic  despotism  of  a  thousand 

years.  JOHN  SPARGO. 

192 


193 


The  Spirit  of  German  Science 

THE  moral  revulsion  of  the  world  against  the  Germans  is  justified 
by  their  use  of  science. 
It  is  not  a  question  of  the  excellence,  amount,  or  character  of 
science — all  subjects  of  legitimate  debate — but  of  the  use  the  Ger- 
mans make  of  science.  While  science  has  been  used  in  war  at  all  times 
and  has  been  a  formidable  arm  in  the  hands  of  those  who  ha\'e  known  how 
to  use  it,  still  the  limits  of  its  use  have  been  fixed  with  more  or  less  rigor. 
Even  before  the  conventions  of  The  Hague  were  formulated,  there  was 
the  general  recognition  of  the  natural  distinction  between  civilized  and 
barbarous  warfare.  The  savage's  poisoned  arrow  has  been  the  symbol 
of  what,  though  scientific,  was  barbarous,  llie  murder  of  the  wounded 
soldier  or  of  the  disarmed  prisoner  has  always  been  condemned  as  the 
crime  of  the  apache,  not  the  method  of  the  gentleman.  Pity  for  the  inno- 
cent— women,  children,  even  the  animals — and  merciful  treatment  of  the 
helpless — the  drowning,  the  famished — seem  to  mark  man,  even  in  the  pro- 
fession of  intentional  killing  of  his  fellow-man,  as  moved  by  a  certain  senti- 
ment, a  certain  sense  of  human  superiority  to  the  brute  which  takes  blood 
simply  from  the  love  of  it. 

Even  against  the  legitimate  foe  there  are  certain  means  of  offense  so 
base — the  use  of  poison  in  wells,  the  diffusion  of  microbes  of  disease — 
or  so  treacherous — the  dynamite-loaded  cigar — that  the  chivalrous  man 
redresses  himself  at  the  thought  of  them  with  a  shudder  of  mingled  moral 
contempt  and  physical  nausea. 

This  has  been  the  use  made  of  science  by  the  Germans.  They  have 
abolished  the  distinction  between  the  knight  and  the  brute,  between  the 
man  and  the  snake,  between  pure  science  and  foul  practice.  This  damns 
the  German  race. 

Our  grandchildren  will  say  to  their  granchildren:  "You  murdered 
people  in  open  boats,  you  bombarded  audiences  kneeling  in  churches,  you 
torpedoed  hospital  ships  in  plain  ocean,  you  sent  young  girls  into  immoral 
slavery,  you  tortured  prisoners,  you  poisoned  the  wells  used  by  civilian 
populations,  you  did  a  hundred  treacherous  things  that  our  fathers  and 
mothers  shuddered  to  recall.     Yo\i  Germans  did  it." 

To  future  generations  this  will  damn  the  German  race.  Xo  theory  of 
the  super-man,  of  the  chosen  state,  of  the  alliance  with  God  will  ever  gloss 
it  over. 

Their  science  may  have  honored  the  Germans,  but  the  Germans  have 
dishonored  science. 

German  science  has  always  had  the  credit  of  making  happy  application 
and  practical  use  of  abstract  laws  and  formulas,  chemical,  physical,  bio- 
logical. In  applying  science  in  war,  however,  it  has  disallowed  the  moral 
laws  which  underlie  all  sound  science  and  healthy  life.  Here  German 
"applied  science"  will  remain,  let  us  hope,  for  all  time  unrivalled. 

J.  ^lARK  BALDWIN. 
194 


195 


Humanity  and  Her  German 

Lovers 

IT  is  not  possible  to  judge  Louis  Raemaekers  as  an  artist.  He  is  a 
voice,  a  sword,  a  flame.  His  cartoons  are  the  tears  of  women,  the 
battle-shout  of  indomitable  defenders,  the  indignation  of  humanity, 
the  sob  of  civilization.  They  will  go  down  into  history.  They  are  his- 
tory. To  take  them,  to  turn  page  after  page,  is  to  knozv  the  European 
War,  to  see  it  face  to  face,  as  a  child  sees,  and  not  through  a  glass 
darkly. 

It  is  one  of  the  great  works  of  the  world  which  he  has  done.  Perhaps 
genius  was  only  dormant,  waiting  for  the  cry  of  general  catastrophe  to 
bring  it  forth  into  vivid,  terrific  life.  And  yet — for  who  shall  say  that  all 
things  in  heaven  and  earth  are  understood? — it  may  be  that  those  same 
voices  that  called  through  the  orchard  of  Domremy  called  to  the  car- 
toonist in  the  office  of  the  Amsterdam  "Telegraaf,"  that  into  his  simple 
soul,  recommended  to  God  by  its  love  of  flowers,  there  fell  a  tear  from 
on  high. 

George  Creel  in  "The  Century  Magazine,"  June,  1917. 


196 


'^^igiw^wmiipp   II  ■■!!  liumiiij 


197 


The  Strikers 

Striker  to  Agitator:  ' '  Yo/f  speak  very  well,  hut 
when  I  see  these  fellows  I  'm  ashamed  I  ever  listened 
to  you. " 

RAEMAEKERS'  cartoons  will  prove  an  immortal  comment  on  the 
great  world  war.  He  makes  the  world  see  that  war  does  not 
create  atrocities  but  that  war  itself  is  the  supremest  of  all  atroci- 
ties. When  the  names  of  battles  have  been  forgotten  the  name  of  Rae- 
maekers  will  be  spoken  with  gratitude  and  reverence  by  coming  genera- 

^"'"'''  CARRIE  CHAPMAN  CATT. 


198 


-i "Ui^   p^eA^^^e/<»ry  .  . 


199 


1776-1917 


M 


EN,  nations,  and  movements  are  symbolized  b}'  their  moments  of 
crisis.  The  long,  tedious,  humdrum  years  of  life  never  get  into 
picture,  never  lire  human  imagination;  even  though  those  years 
are  the  necessary  foundations  upon  which  great  events  rise.  So  America 
for  nearly  a  century  and  a  half  has  been  symbolized — at  least  in  European 
eyes — by  that  great  moment  when  she  rose  in  the  world  and  asserted  her 
independent  status  "among  the  nations  of  the  earth."  The  men  of  '76 
have  stood  for  American  valor,  American  military  skill,  American  states- 
manship. Now  has  come  a  time  when  "a  decent  respect  for  the  nations  of 
mankind  requires"  that  Americans  shall  again  stand  for  their  portrait  in 
history.  This  time  we  are  standing  among  the  civilized  nations  not  for 
independence,  but  for  interdependence!  Where  once  we  stood  for  a  na- 
tion consecrated  to  freedom,  now  we  stand  for  a  community  of  nations 
consecrated  to  justice.  Perhaps  when  the  new  portraits  are  painted  in 
this  great  hour  of  crisis  all  the  nations  of  the  world  will  appear  in  history 
with  new  faces.  The  soldier  of  the  revolution  of  '76;  the  red-capped  lib- 
erty girl  of  France,  the  conventional  John  Bull,  the  German  war  lord — all 
will  "suffer  a  sea-change  into  something  rich  and  strange."  And  the  old 
portraits  that  glimpsed  the  old  truth  about  the  old  world  shall  in  the  new 

world  have  but  an  archaic  interest ! 

WILLIAM  ALLEN  WHITE. 


200 


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201 


Now,  Hindenburg,  Bring  on  the 
Rest  of  My  People  " 


ATX  of  us  wlio  love  the  Old  (jermany  we  knew,  who  have  dear 
friends  there,  and  who  have  rejoiced  in  the  happiness  honest  in- 
dustrialism and  widespread  ccjnimerce  were  Ijringing  to  a  great 
people  Ix'fore  this  tcrril)le  slaughter  began  feel  a  deep  pang  of  sorrow  as 
we  look  upon  Raemackers'  terril)lc  picture  of  what  the  war  has  brought  to 
Germania. 

The  dreadful  pity  of  it  is  that  Germania  should  have  brought  this  upon 
herself  by  appealing  to  the  Sword  when  the  Temi>le  of  Peace  stood  open 
and  all  her  present  enemies  were  pleading  that  there  should  be  no  shed- 
dino-  of  blood. 

DAVID  JAYNE  HILT.. 


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202 


203 


The  Master  of  the  Hounds 

^' Remember^  Michaelis^  every  dog  has  his  day!'' 


204 


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205 


Processional 

NOT  for  a  flaunted  flaj?,  O  God, 
Not  for  alTriiiitc-d  i)o\vcr, 
Xot  for  a  scurrilc  hope  of  {?ain, 
Not  for  the  pride  of  an  hour, 
Not  for  vengeance,  hot  in  tlic  lieart, 
Now  have  we  swuno-  to  war ! 
Not  for  a  weak  mistrust  lest  peace 
Is  a  shame  strong  men  abhor. 
Not  for  glory — for  oh,  to  kill 
Should  be  a  sacred  wrath: 
Not  for  these !  but  to  war  on  war 
And  sweep  it  from  earth's  path ! 

Patient  has  been  our  creed,  till  now, 
Patient,  too,  our  hope, 
Patient  for  long  our  loathful  deed. 
For  the  just  in  doubt  must  grope. 
But  with  a  foe  at  last  arrayed 
Against   the   whole  world's  right. 
You,  O  soul  of  the  universe, 
Your  very  self  must  tight. 
You  yourself ;  so  but  one  prayer 
Need  we  to  lift — but  one. 
That  by  our  battle  shall  all  war 
Be  utterly  undone. 

CALE  YOUNG  RICE. 


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